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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

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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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Each Other Love Meaning Relationship
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
Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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Break Issolation People Spirit Terrorism World
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
Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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Dominate Society Violence
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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Against Choice Choose Fear Love Separate
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
Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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Class Education Knowledge Money
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
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Deep Imagination Inspirational
The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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Commitment Life Love People
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.
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Commitment Love Possible
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Believe Important Inspirational

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