But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.
Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits.
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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 journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place.
I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I'm committed to loving you, then it's not possible for me to 'fall out of love.'
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
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 tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.
Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of people and that one did not have to continue the personal consciousness-raising and changing of one's viewpoint.
The working-class black Southern Christian culture I come from still nurtures me, and I mean directly, daily.
What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force.
