The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
BELL HOOKSNo 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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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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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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Living simply makes loving simple.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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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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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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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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The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
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