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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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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Act Feminism Racism Silence
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time
A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I’m committed to loving you, then it’s not possible for me to fall out of love.
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Commitment Love Possible
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
As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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Class Dominate Feminism Race Realize Women
When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.
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Against Choice Choose Fear Love Separate
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
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
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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Book Delicious Divine Ideas Passion Reading Rule Time Truth Wonderful
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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Act Ego Learning Past
To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Bond Love Relationship Romantic Task
I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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Black Lives Matter People Self Esteem Serious
Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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Class Education Knowledge Money
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
The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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Commitment Life Love People
Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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Dominate Society Violence

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