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 HOOKSEvery terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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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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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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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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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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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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I think the Women’s movement has had a major impact on everybody’s lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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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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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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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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Love is really more of an interactive process. It’s about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun.
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