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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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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
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
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
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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Commitment Fall Men Problem
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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Beautiful Black Lives Matter Color Involvement Judgment Racism Skin Space Thinking
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time
Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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Break Issolation People Spirit Terrorism World
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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Feeling Interactive Love Process
Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Absence Choice Oppression
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Country Institution Library Public
Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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Dominate Society Violence
Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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Genuine Gratitude Instant Love Need Rare Space
Feminism is for everybody.
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Feminism One Liner
I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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Black Lives Matter People Self Esteem Serious
The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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Commitment Life Love People

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