The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.

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 you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.

She thinks I'm a hussy, ' thought Scarlett. 'And perhaps she's right at that!

God is the originator of life.

Patience is the glue that binds hard work and faith.

I don't live to work. I work to live. Before I die, I know I lived.

I've heard it said, "If the Devil can't make us really bad, then he'll try to make us really busy.

I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real.

In leadership, there are no words more important than trust.

You will hardly know who I am or what I mean

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions