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Love is really more of an interactive process. It’s about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun.

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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Beloved Community Justice Stand
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
Patriarchy has no gender.
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Equality Feminism Gender One Liner
Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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Dialogue Foundation Honesty Insight Open Minded
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
As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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Class Dominate Feminism Race Realize Women
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
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Country Institution Library Public
Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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Class Education Knowledge Money
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 believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
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Believe Commitment Each Other Endurance Health Impossible Individual Relationship Sustain
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
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
Living simply makes loving simple.
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Live Love Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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Genuine Gratitude Instant Love Need Rare Space

Love is really more of an interactive process. It’s about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun.

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Love is really more of an interactive process. It’s about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun.

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