When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
BELL HOOKSTo love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they’re beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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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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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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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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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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