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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Absence Choice Oppression
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
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Beyond Imagination Possible Reality Vision
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Children Different Experience Life People
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
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time
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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Freedom Movement Politics Protection Society Speech
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
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
Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
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Death Life Moments Reality Time
Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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Cancer Feminism Struggle Women
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
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Creature Earth Fear Inspirational People Surround
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
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Country Institution Library Public
Feminism is for everybody.
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Feminism One Liner
Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Action Couple Feeling Love One Liner
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
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Civil Rights Country Justice Love Movement Social
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time
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
Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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Dominate Society Violence
What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Believe Important Inspirational
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
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
Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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Care Combination Commitment Knowledge Love Respect Responsiblity Trust
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
There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
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Education Feminism Ideas Movement Understand

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