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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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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Action Couple Feeling Love One Liner
Feminism is for everybody.
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Feminism One Liner
To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Bond Love Relationship Romantic Task
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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Dominate Society Violence
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
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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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
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
A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I’m committed to loving you, then it’s not possible for me to fall out of love.
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Commitment Love Possible
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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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
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
If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Beloved Community Justice Stand
The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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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 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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