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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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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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Class Dominate Feminism Race Realize Women
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
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
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
To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Bond Love Relationship Romantic Task
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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Impact Movement Nation Women Empowerment World
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
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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Class Education Knowledge Money
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
Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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Dialogue Foundation Honesty Insight Open Minded
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
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.
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Commitment Love Possible
What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Believe Important Inspirational
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
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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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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