A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I’m committed to loving you, then it’s not possible for me to fall out of love.
BELL HOOKSWhen we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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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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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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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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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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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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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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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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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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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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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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I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
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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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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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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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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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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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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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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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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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