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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.

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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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Cancer Feminism Struggle Women
Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Absence Choice Oppression
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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Book Country Love Writing
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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Death Life Moments Reality Time
It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
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Act Ego Learning Past
I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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Black Lives Matter People Self Esteem Serious
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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Change Enormous Excess Live People Realize Simplicity Social
Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power – not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.
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Destroy Existence Human Nature People Power Recognize See
The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.
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Beginning Female Feminism Leaving Lose Love Ourselves Person Search
We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they’re beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
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Beautiful Black Lives Matter Color Involvement Judgment Racism Skin Space Thinking
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time
Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
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Each Other Love Meaning Relationship
What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Deep Imagination Inspirational
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Act Feminism Racism Silence
If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
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Agency Beyond Existence Feeling Female Feminism Herself Power She Validation
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time

The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.

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