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.
BELL HOOKSI think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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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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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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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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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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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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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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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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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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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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