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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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Alone Art Escape Love Self Love Solitude
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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Believe Ignorance Inspirational Life Women Power
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
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
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
Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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Change Hope Ideas Inspirational People
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 rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
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
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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Change Enormous Excess Live People Realize Simplicity Social
The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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Commitment Life Love People
Patriarchy has no gender.
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Equality Feminism Gender One Liner
If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Beloved Community Justice Stand
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
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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