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Without justice there can be no love.

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My work is mostly influenced by the concrete circumstances of our daily lives.
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As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing.
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The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action.
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I'm lucky. I think it's good that I have a body of work that addresses different things in different ways.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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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 with someone else in a manner that is not about your desire to possess them, but to be with them, to be in union and communion.
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To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.
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Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves oppressed, no one would have taken them seriously.
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It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.
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I think part of Western metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other.
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All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters.
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