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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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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
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
Patriarchy has no gender.
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Equality Feminism Gender One Liner
Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Absence Choice Oppression
My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
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Book Delicious Divine Ideas Passion Reading Rule Time Truth Wonderful
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
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Children Different Experience Life People
Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Action Couple Feeling Love One Liner
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Country Institution Library Public
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time
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
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
Forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
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Account Believe Capacity Compassion Forgiveness Humanity Time Transfomation Wrong
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
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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Book Country Love Writing

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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