Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
BELL HOOKSAll our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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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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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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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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To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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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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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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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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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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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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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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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 people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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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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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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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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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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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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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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