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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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I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in…
— Audre Lorde
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I salute you! There is nothing I can give you which you have not; but there is much, that, while I cannot…
— Giovanni Giocondo
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Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused,…
— Dean Koontz
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Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If…
— Orson Scott Card
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People who are obsessed with Jesus do not consider service a burden. Obsessed people take joy in loving God by loving His…
— Francis Chan
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Be kind to people whether they deserve your kindness or not. If your kindness reaches the deserving good for you if your…
— James Fadiman
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Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new…
— Rumi
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Things in which we do not take joy are either a burden upon our minds to be got rid of at any…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it.
— Rumi
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May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are.
— Carol Emshwiller
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Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty,a drop of the Tigris that cannot be…
— Rumi
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Appreciate how rare and full of potential your situation is in this world, then take joy in it, and use it to…
— Dalai Lama
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