I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.

The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.

[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.

The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination.

As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.

To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.

What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.

The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.

Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.

Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.

You are the masterpiece of Love Itself framed within a body. And so you are.

Every life is precious. Please treasure each and every day, the present, the moment, and yourself.

No one really understands the grief or joy of another.

There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.

Whoever reflects recognizes that there are empty and lonely spaces between one’s experiences.

A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health.

I was the owner of my own darkness.

It's a bit startling to achieve global recognition before the age of 30, on account of your sister, brother in law and your bottom.

Flows that go against the grain with a story so compellin' I should mind The People's Court, snatch the mic from Doug Llewellyn

I knew [Timothy] Leary, but barely knew, didn't really know Jan [Kerouac].