Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
BELL HOOKSSince 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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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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When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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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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We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they’re beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
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The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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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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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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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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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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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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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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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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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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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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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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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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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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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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