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When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.
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Against Choice Choose Fear Love Separate
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
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
If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Beloved Community Justice Stand
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
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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Believe Ignorance Inspirational Life Women Power
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
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
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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Art Function Imagination Inspirational Possible
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
Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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Dialogue Foundation Honesty Insight Open Minded
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
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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Creature Earth Fear Inspirational People Surround
I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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Black Lives Matter People Self Esteem Serious
Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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Dominate Society Violence
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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Change Enormous Excess Live People Realize Simplicity Social

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