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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.
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Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and…
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Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Silence has never brought us anything of worth.
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‎Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then…
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I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in…
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For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be…
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Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our…
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within…
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There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley…
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Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take that living and use it…
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The mechanism of primary emotions does not describe the full range of emotional behaviors. They are, to be sure, the basic mechanism.…
— Antonio Damasio
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Once we begin chasing approval, we never stop running. It's servitude to a thousand masters instead of one to please.
— David Jeremiah
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Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the…
— Morris Raphael Cohen
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Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits…
— Audre Lorde
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Once we begin to question our thoughts, our partners-alive, dead or divorced-are always our greatest teachers. There's no mistake about the person…
— Byron Katie
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Security isn't what the wise person looks for; it's opportunity. And once we begin looking for that, we find it on every…
— Earl Nightingale
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The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to…
— Arthur Miller
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God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning…
— Gloria Steinem
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What do you know about yourself? What are your stories? The ones you tell yourself, and the ones told by others. All…
— Cameron Dokey
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Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and…
— Charles Stanley
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