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• The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love, we begin…
• Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.
• Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our…
• The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage…
• Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real…
• All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are…
• I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality…
• People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.
• Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to process all…
• I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining,…
• The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be…
• Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical…

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