Anger prevents love and isolates the one who is angry. It is an attempt, often successful, to push away what is most longed for—companionship and understanding. It is a denial of the humanness of othe...
Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all that is good remains wedded to the very logic of Western metaphy...
As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world.
Embracing love ethic means that we utilize all dimensions of love-- care, commitment, trust, responsibility, respect and knowledge-- in our everyday lives.
Folks from the backwoods were certain about two things: that every human soul needed to be free and that the responsibility of being free required one to be a person of integrity, a person who lived i...
Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
I had the strength to rebel, but I did not have the strength to let go.
I learned then that it is more fulfilling to live one's life within a circle of love, interacting with loved ones to whom we are committed.
If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
In our nation masses of people are concerned about violence but resolutely refuse to link that violence to patriarchal thinking or male domination. Feminist thinking offers a solution. And it is up to...
In patriarchal culture males are not allowed simply to be who they are and to glory in their unique identity. Their value is always determined by what they do. In an antipatriarchal culture males do n...
In the dominator model the pursuit of external power, the ability to manipulate and control others, is what matters most. When culture is based on a dominator model, not only will it be violent but it...
Indeed, all the great movements for social justice in our society have strongly emphasized a love ethic.
It is necessary to remember, as we think critically about domination, that we all have the capacity to act in ways that oppress, dominate, wound (whether or not that power is institutionalized). It is...
It still took years for me to let go of learned pattern's of behavior that negated my capacity to give and receive love. One pattern that made the practice of love especially difficult was my constant...
Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.
Many women cannot hear male pain about love because it sounds like an indictment of female failure.
None of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of being immodest, and acting courageously to bring issues of class- especially radical standpoin...
Nothing indicts female allegiance to patriarchy more than the willingness to behave as though the problems created by cultural investment in sexist thinking about the nature of male and female roles c...
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