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?
BELL HOOKSI think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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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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Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe – not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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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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There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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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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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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