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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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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Action Couple Feeling Love One Liner
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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Act Ego Learning Past
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
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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Destroy Existence Human Nature People Power Recognize See
There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
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Education Feminism Ideas Movement Understand
I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
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Believe Commitment Each Other Endurance Health Impossible Individual Relationship Sustain
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
Living simply makes loving simple.
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Live Love Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
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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Creature Earth Fear Inspirational People Surround
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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Change Hope Ideas Inspirational People
There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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Act Death Life Violence
I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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Black Lives Matter People Self Esteem Serious
What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Deep Imagination Inspirational
If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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Children Deal Life Self Love Sound
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
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
Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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Cancer Feminism Struggle Women
My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
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Book Delicious Divine Ideas Passion Reading Rule Time Truth Wonderful
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
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Civil Rights Country Justice Love Movement Social
Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Absence Choice Oppression
Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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Dialogue Foundation Honesty Insight Open Minded
The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.
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Beginning Female Feminism Leaving Lose Love Ourselves Person Search
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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Action Difficult Fall Love Responsiblity
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Children Different Experience Life People
Patriarchy has no gender.
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Equality Feminism Gender One Liner
To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Bond Love Relationship Romantic Task

You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.

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