The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
BELL HOOKSThe 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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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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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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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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I think the Women’s movement has had a major impact on everybody’s lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
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