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- Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with…
- The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to…
- Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually -…
- The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny…
- We are rarely able to interact only with folks like ourselves, who think as we do. No matter how much some of us deny this…
- When we are more energized by the practice of blaming than we are by efforts to create transformation, we not only cannot find relief from…
- Time and time again when I talk to individuals about approaching love with will and intentionality, I hear the fear expressed that this will bring…
- Women have endeavored to guide men to love because patriarchal thinking has sanctioned this work even as it has undermined it by teaching men to…
- ...move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective as well as individual change.
- Knowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair.
- My hope emerges from those places of struggle where I witness individuals positively transforming their lives and the world around them. Educating is a vocation rooted…
- Contrary to what some folks would have us believe, it is not tragic, even if undesirable, for a person to leave a liberal arts education…
- I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
- 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…
- 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…
- Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that…
- 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…
- There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is…
- I believe that this nation can only heal from the wounds of racism if we all begin to love blackness. And by that I don't…
- 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…
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