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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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
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Book Delicious Divine Ideas Passion Reading Rule Time Truth Wonderful
Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Action Couple Feeling Love One Liner
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
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
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 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
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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Book Country Love Writing
I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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Black Lives Matter People Self Esteem Serious

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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