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I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
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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 opportunity to have the unconditional love we may have always longed to receive from someone else.
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The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom.
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Knowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair.
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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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The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously is living with a core of healthy self-esteem. You will face reality, you will not delude yourself.
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Only love can heal the wounds of the past. However, the intensity of our woundedness often leads to a closing of the heart, making it impossible for us to give or receive the love that is given to us.
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A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers - the experience of knowing we always belong.
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Without justice there can be no love.
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I have been contemplating the place and meaning of love in our lives and culture for years. When a subject attracts my intellectual and emotional imagination, I am long to observe it from all angles, to know it inside and out.
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The greater our commitment, the more likely our love will last.
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Love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.
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It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
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My students tell me, we don't want to love! We're tired of being loving! And I say to them, if you're tired of being loving, then you haven't really been loving, because when you are loving you have more strength.
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We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.
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We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.
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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 our issues, to cope with differences and conflict while staying connected.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
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