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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
- First-Hand
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, 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?
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
- Ending
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
But 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.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.
- Assert
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- Nov 07, 2020
All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The working-class black Southern Christian culture I come from still nurtures me, and I mean directly, daily.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
- Fraught
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- Nov 07, 2020
In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we have no time to love.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and just smile at everyone who walked by. Like, 'Please take me with you!'
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Using pseudonyms was such a part of the early feminist movement. We didn't want to have this star system. We wanted attention on the ideas, not the persona of the writer.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
- Nov 07, 2020
I told my parents when I was 12 I'd be a writer.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this culture, the phrase 'black woman' is not synonymous with 'tender,' or 'gentle.' It's as if those words couldn't possibly speak to the reality of black females.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a lushness to how my mind works.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ethic of liberal individualism has so deeply permeated the psyches of blacks... of all classes that we have little support for a political ethic of communalism that promotes the sharing of resources.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Live simply so that others may simply live.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that's feminism.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of people and that one did not have to continue the personal consciousness-raising and changing of one's viewpoint.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020