Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
BELL HOOKSEvery terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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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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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe – not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.
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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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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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