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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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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
Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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Break Issolation People Spirit Terrorism World
I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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Black Lives Matter People Self Esteem Serious
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
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
What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Believe Important Inspirational
Patriarchy has no gender.
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Equality Feminism Gender One Liner
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
Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Absence Choice Oppression
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
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
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
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
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Country Institution Library Public
Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Action Couple Feeling Love One Liner
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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