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Living simply makes loving simple.

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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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Children Deal Life Self Love Sound
I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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Black Lives Matter People Self Esteem Serious
What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Deep Imagination Inspirational
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
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Believe Ignorance Inspirational Life Women Power
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
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
Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe – not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.
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Complex Demand Integrity Justice Moral Perspective Requirement Right Universe Weight Wrong
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
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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Change Enormous Excess Live People Realize Simplicity Social
There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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Act Death Life Violence
Patriarchy has no gender.
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Equality Feminism Gender One Liner
As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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Class Dominate Feminism Race Realize Women
Feminism is for everybody.
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Feminism One Liner
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Believe Important Inspirational
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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Civil Rights Country Justice Love Movement Social

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