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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 political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
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Freedom Movement Politics Protection Society Speech
I think the Women’s movement has had a major impact on everybody’s lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
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Impact Movement Nation Women Empowerment World
Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
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Death Life Moments Reality Time
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
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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Art Belief Elegance Environment Grace Live Reflection
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
All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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Commitment Fall Men Problem
There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
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Education Feminism Ideas Movement Understand
Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Action Couple Feeling Love One Liner
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
Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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Change Hope Ideas Inspirational People
I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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Black Lives Matter People Self Esteem Serious
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
Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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Class Education Knowledge Money

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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