All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
BELL HOOKSThere will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
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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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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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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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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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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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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
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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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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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