I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.
From bell hooks
I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
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.
Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
In this culture, the phrase 'black woman' is not synonymous with 'tender,' or 'gentle.' It's as if those words couldn't possibly speak to the reality of black females.
I love my family, even as I critique their dysfunctionalities.
Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that's feminism.
It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.
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