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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
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Each Other Love Meaning Relationship
Living simply makes loving simple.
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Live Love Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
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
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 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 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
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
It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
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Act Ego Learning Past
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
The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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Commitment Life Love People
Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power – not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.
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Destroy Existence Human Nature People Power Recognize See
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
What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Believe Important Inspirational
Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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Break Issolation People Spirit Terrorism World

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