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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…
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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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Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our…
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The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage…
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Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real…
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All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are…
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I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality…
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People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.
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Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to process all…
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I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining,…
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The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be…
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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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Poor white people and poor black people just don't know how much they have in common. Rich people don't give a damn…
— Charles Barkley
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I was more than anything a radical. I was more sympathetic to Malcolm X than Martin Luther King because Malcolm X was…
— Walter E. Williams
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Conservatives have been using poor black and Latino children as mascots in the voucher crusade for a decade.
— Cynthia Tucker
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The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East…
— Billy Graham
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Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have…
— Mark Sanford
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I make shoes for white suburban kids, not the poor black kids. That would be like opening a restaurant for people without…
— Michael Jordan
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But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.
— Russell Simmons
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I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should…
— J C Watts
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In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a…
— J C Watts
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Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or…
— Juan Williams
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I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.
— Michael Eric Dyson
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I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to…
— Bell Hooks
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