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I think our culture doesn't recognize passion, because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries.
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True resistance begins with people confronting pain ... and wanting to do something to change it.
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making soil soup deep
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Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.
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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.— Bell Hooks
Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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A love ethic presupposes that everyone has the right to be free, to live fully and well.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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No woman has ever written enough.
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Love is profoundly political. Our deepest revolution will come when we understand this truth.
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Feminism is not anti- male, Feminism is anti-sexism
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that's feminism.
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education was about the practice of freedom.
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Male fantasy is seen as something that can create reality, whereas female fantasy is regarded as pure escape.
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I would also say that, in practice, many more Americans are anarchists than would ever use that term.
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To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.
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There is a lushness to how my mind works.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Love and abuse cannot co-exist.
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When we are loving, we openly and honestly express care, affection, responsibility, respect, commitment, and trust.
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If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.
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First and foremost feminist movement urged females to no longer see ourselves and our bodies as the property of men.
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Emotionally shut-down black males are often represented as epitomizing desirable masculinity.
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I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
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Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.
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All awakening to love is spiritual awakening
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I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.
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Language is also a place of struggle.
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The world demands that you work for it, make families, provide, take no time to listen to your own heart beating.
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Remember, care is a dimension of love, but simply giving care does not mean we are loving.
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Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune.
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I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.
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There is no politically neutral art.
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Profound changes in the way we think and act must take place if we are to create a loving culture.
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Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.
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The working-class black Southern Christian culture I come from still nurtures me, and I mean directly, daily.
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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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Indeed, all the great movements for social justice in our society have strongly emphasized a love ethic.
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It is poetry that changes everything.
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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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There can be no love without justice.
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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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