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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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Change Enormous Excess Live People Realize Simplicity Social
All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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Commitment Fall Men Problem
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
When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.
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Against Choice Choose Fear Love Separate
I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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Black Lives Matter People Self Esteem Serious
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
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Beyond Imagination Possible Reality Vision
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
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Alone Art Escape Love Self Love Solitude
Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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Cancer Feminism Struggle Women
I think the Women’s movement has had a major impact on everybody’s lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
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Impact Movement Nation Women Empowerment World
The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
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Art Function Imagination Inspirational Possible
The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
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Freedom Movement Politics Protection Society Speech
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
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
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 rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage

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