You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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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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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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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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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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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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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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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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