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.
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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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
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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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When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
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Love is really more of an interactive process. It’s about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun.
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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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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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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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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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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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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power – not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.
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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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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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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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