Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate

Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly.

Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.

Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.

Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.

That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.

Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.

The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

Under the color-blind ideology of the new racism, Blackness must be SEEN as evidence for the alleged color blindness that seemingly characterizes contemporary economic opportunity.

Thinking is an exercise of an imaginative mind to empower dreams and desires.

Begging for help never gets you any.

Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.

We're children of God through our blood kinship with Christ. We're also sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, with a hereditary craving for forbidden fruit salad.

I've learned to surround myself with women who lift me up and leave me feeling nurtured rather than drained.

Every character I do is something special to me. Every time you score with a great character relationship in a movie, it becomes your baby.

Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.

God took and needed no personal service. He served His creatures without demanding any service for Himself in return.

In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of the colonial days and earlier.

Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?