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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.

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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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.

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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.

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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.

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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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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.

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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.

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Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.

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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.

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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.

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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.

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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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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.

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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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