Indeed, all the great movements for social justice in our society have strongly emphasized a love ethic.
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...
In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with thoughts and feelings - where we can experie...
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.
I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that is redemptive, full of hope and possibility. Not this In order to love you, I must make you s...
I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining, come to understand that when black people come together to celebrate and r...
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.
I knew that I wanted to follow their example and become a teacher who would help students become self-directed learners.
I have no fear here, in this world of trees, weeds, and growing things.
I had the strength to rebel, but I did not have the strength to let go.
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...
Embracing love ethic means that we utilize all dimensions of love-- care, commitment, trust, responsibility, respect and knowledge-- in our everyday lives.
Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love.
As long as females take up the banner of feminist politicswithout addressing and transforming their own sexism, ultimatelythe movement will be undermined.
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...
All awakening to love is spiritual awakening
A vision of cultural homogeneity that seeks to deflect attention away from or even excuse the oppressive, dehumanizing impact of white supremacy on the lives of black people by suggesting black people...
While it is positive for young black males and females to learn discipline and self-responsibility, those attitudes, values, and habits of being can be taught with pedagogical strategies that are libe...
While it has become cool for white folks to hang out with black people and express pleasure in black culture, most white people do not feel that this pleasure should be linked to unlearning racism.
When everyone in the classroom, teacher and students, recognizes that they are responsible for creating a learning community together, learning is at its most meaningful and useful.