It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect.

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.

If not for love, then what else?

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.

I never thought in a million years I'd be that healthy girl who wakes up every morning to exercise. After being called 'cherubic and chubby, ' I'm rocking a bikini!

Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.

As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.

It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible

The Eubank fight was my hardest fight.

Things are going to go wrong. The great chefs are the ones that don't let it fluster them. They just move through it.

By letting our children lead us to their own special places we can rediscover the joy and wonder of nature.

February brings the rain, Thaws the frozen lake again.