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.
BELL HOOKSJustice 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 cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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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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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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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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