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

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

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

Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.

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.

Your imperfections should not stop you from moving towards your dreams. If you wait until you are perfect, or "good enough" your dreams will remain just a dream.

Nobody cares how tough your upbringing was. Nobody cares if you suffered some discrimination.

It’s only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve.

I've done quite a few big American films.

I keep some portion of my early gleam; Brokenly bright, like moonbeams on a river, It lights my life, a far illusive dream, Moves as I move, and leads me on forever.

If we truly believe in an all-powerful God, then there's going to be beauty and truth to be found in all sorts of different places.

Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB.

Boredom strives to detach, but finds itself stuck.

My objective is to satisfy [my] audience so they come back the next day.

I can't stand unpacking.