Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love. - bell hooks

To me the family has always been that place of familiarity that holds and hurts us.

If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege.

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 plurality, the vast majority of folks in this society still believe in a notion of identity that is rooted in a sense of essential traits and characteristics that are fixed and static.