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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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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
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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Control Force Hurt Loss Love Outside Pain Practice Risk Safety
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
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
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?
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Account Believe Capacity Compassion Forgiveness Humanity Time Transfomation Wrong
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
Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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Break Issolation People Spirit Terrorism World
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 life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Children Different Experience Life People
What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Believe Important Inspirational
Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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Dominate Society Violence
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
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
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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Complex Demand Integrity Justice Moral Perspective Requirement Right Universe Weight Wrong
Feminism is for everybody.
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Feminism One Liner

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