Black progressives suffered major disillusionment with white progressives when our experiences of working with them revealed that they could want to be with us (even to be our sexual partners) without...
For years I lived my life suspended, trapped by the past, unable to move into the future. Like every wounded child I just wanted to turn back time and be in that paradise again, in that moment of reme...
I learned then that it is more fulfilling to live one's life within a circle of love, interacting with loved ones to whole we are committed.
If men were socialized to desire love as much as they are taught to desire sex, we would see a cultural revolution.
If women want a feminist revolution—ours is a world that is crying out for feminist revolution—then we must assume responsibility for drawing women together in political solidarity. That means we must...
Individual members of certain churches in black communities should protest when worship services become a platform for teaching anti-gay sentiments. Often individuals sit and listen to preachers ragin...
Love allows us to confront these negative realities in a manner that is life-affirming and life enhancing.
Love empowers us to live fully and die well. Death becomes, then, not an end to life but a part of living.
My grief was a heavy, despairing sadness caused by parting from a companion of many years but, more important, it was a despair rooted in the fear that love did not exist, could not be found. And even...
No significant body of feminist writing addresses boys directly, letting them know how they can construct an identity that is not rooted in sexism. There is no body of feminist children's literature t...
Nowadays we live in a world where poor teenagers are willing to maim and murder for a pair of tennis shoes or a designer coat; this is not a consequence of poverty. In dire situations of poverty at ea...
One of the greatest difficulties the left faces in reaching out to masses of people in America is its profound disrespect of spirituality and religious life…people on the left need to acknowledge – we...
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..
Profound changes in the way we think and act must take place if we are to create a loving culture.
Redeemed and restored, love returns us to the promise of everlasting life. When we love we can let our hearts speak.
Refusal to stand up for what you believe in weakens individual morality and ethics as well as those of the culture.
Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in which male domination of women and children stands in the ways of love.
Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity, border crossing, subjectivity constructed out of plura...
The fear of being alone, or of being unloved, had caused women of all races to passively accept sexism and sexist oppression.
They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as patriarchs, by other men, including white men. Yet they could not assume this pos...
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