Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
BELL HOOKSYou can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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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.
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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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Forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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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.
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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.
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Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”. No woman has ever written enough.
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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.
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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
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