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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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Act Death Life Violence
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
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Beloved Community Justice Stand
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 rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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Cancer Feminism Struggle Women
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
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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Black Enough Indeed Women Writing
Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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Class Education Knowledge Money
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
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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Feeling Interactive Love Process
Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Absence Choice Oppression
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Country Institution Library Public
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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Attention Bond Person Relationship Rescognize Rescouce Romantic
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Children Different Experience Life People

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