The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
BELL HOOKSTo know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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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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Living simply makes loving simple.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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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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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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