One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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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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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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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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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.
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The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
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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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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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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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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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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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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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