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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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Bond Commitment Couple Maintain Pain Relationship Response
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Act Feminism Racism Silence
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Children Different Experience Life People
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
Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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Genuine Gratitude Instant Love Need Rare Space
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
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Country Institution Library Public
What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Deep Imagination Inspirational
Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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Dialogue Foundation Honesty Insight Open Minded
Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Absence Choice Oppression
If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Beloved Community Justice Stand
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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Against Choice Choose Fear Love Separate
Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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Class Education Knowledge Money
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
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

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