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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
What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Deep Imagination Inspirational
Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Absence Choice Oppression
Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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Class Education Knowledge Money
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
Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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Cancer Feminism Struggle Women
If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
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Agency Beyond Existence Feeling Female Feminism Herself Power She Validation
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
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Act Feminism Racism Silence
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
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 love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Bond Love Relationship Romantic Task
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time
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
We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they’re beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
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Beautiful Black Lives Matter Color Involvement Judgment Racism Skin Space Thinking
If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Beloved Community Justice Stand

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