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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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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
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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Black Enough Indeed Women Writing
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
There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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Act Death Life Violence
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
Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Action Couple Feeling Love One Liner
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Deep Imagination Inspirational
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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Agency Beyond Existence Feeling Female Feminism Herself Power She Validation
If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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Children Deal Life Self Love Sound
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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Beyond Imagination Possible Reality Vision
Patriarchy has no gender.
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Equality Feminism Gender One Liner
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time
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
Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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Class Education Knowledge Money
If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Beloved Community Justice Stand

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