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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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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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Alone Art Escape Love Self Love Solitude
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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Control Force Hurt Loss Love Outside Pain Practice Risk Safety
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
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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Beyond Imagination Possible Reality Vision
All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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Commitment Fall Men Problem
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Act Feminism Racism Silence
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
Feminism is for everybody.
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Feminism One Liner
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Country Institution Library Public
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
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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Each Other Love Meaning Relationship
Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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Dialogue Foundation Honesty Insight Open Minded
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
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
Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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Class Education Knowledge Money
To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Bond Love Relationship Romantic Task

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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