“As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.”

To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.

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.

The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.

But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.

There is nothing better than being in a classroom with really, really brilliant students, and opening up new worlds to them. That’s what I love doing.

Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments – the American people really don’t care.

Democrats don’t relate to middle-class people.

I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.

I hear all this, you know, ‘Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.’ No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own – nobody.

There are two main drivers of asset class returns – inflation and growth.