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To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed... →
I don't think you can hate anything that you know intimately. There is no fine line separating love from hate because there's a deep chasm... →
Using pseudonyms was such a part of the early feminist movement. We didn't want to have this star system. We wanted attention on the ideas, not... →
We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you... →
Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.
It really fascinates me what white people are allowed to write about.
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus... →
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words.
I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of... →
Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to... →
All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.