“You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.”

I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.

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.

Being oppressed means the absence of choices.

Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.

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.

Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.

Patriarchy has no gender.

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.

The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.

Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.

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.

The only reason you aren’t changing your life is that you choose to tell yourself excuses.

The truth doesn’t change.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

No matter how astray the becoming might be, I’ll never search for the old in me.

We reshape our memories into uglier versions because it’s hard to forget them while they’re still beautiful.

Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him

Once you start to love yourself, everything will change, you will get great peace of mind. You will develop a stronger relationship with yourself.

Be kind to yourself, the change for the good starts with you.