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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

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To the extent that we live in a postmodern world and it shapes the concrete circumstances of our daily lives, I would say postmodernism affects my work or influences my work.
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Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world.
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Part of why I have started writing about love is feeling that our culture is forgetting what Martin Luther King taught. We name more and more streets and schools after him but that's almost irrelevant, because what is to be remembered is that strength to love.
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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.
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Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.
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It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect.
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Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.
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Even when people capitalize my name, I don't freak out, even though that would not be my choice.
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there is no politically neutral art.
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The fact is that it was bourgeois white feminism that I was reacting against when I stood in my first women's studies classes and said, Black women have always worked.
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Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.
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The greater our commitment, the more likely our love will last.
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Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same.
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If you're in a domestic situation where the man is violent, patriarchy and male domination - even though you understand it intersectionally - you focus, you highlight that dimension of it, if that's what is needed to change the situation.
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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 knowing possible cannot be taken or are not allowed.
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... we need to interrogate reverence, for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously.
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Justice is possible without equality, I believe, because of compassion and understanding. If I have compassion, then if I have more than you, which is unequal, I will still do the just thing by you.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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