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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
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Believe Commitment Each Other Endurance Health Impossible Individual Relationship Sustain
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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Destroy Existence Human Nature People Power Recognize See
I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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Black Lives Matter People Self Esteem Serious
Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe – not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.
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Complex Demand Integrity Justice Moral Perspective Requirement Right Universe Weight Wrong
Forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
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Account Believe Capacity Compassion Forgiveness Humanity Time Transfomation Wrong
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Act Feminism Racism Silence
Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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Genuine Gratitude Instant Love Need Rare Space
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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Change Enormous Excess Live People Realize Simplicity Social
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
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
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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Alone Art Escape Love Self Love Solitude
The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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Commitment Life Love People
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
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Action Difficult Fall Love Responsiblity
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time
What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Deep Imagination Inspirational
The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
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Art Function Imagination Inspirational Possible
When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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Bond Commitment Couple Maintain Pain Relationship Response
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
Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
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Attention Bond Person Relationship Rescognize Rescouce Romantic
All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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Commitment Fall Men Problem
Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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Dominate Society Violence
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
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
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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Control Force Hurt Loss Love Outside Pain Practice Risk Safety

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