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.
BELL HOOKSWhat we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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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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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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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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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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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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