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Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.

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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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Even when people capitalize my name, I don't freak out, even though that would not be my choice.
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When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think of that work as love in action. While it may challenge, disturb and at times even frighten or enrage readers, love is always the place where I begin and end.
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The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.
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Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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I think we are obsessed in the U.S. with the personal, in ways that blind us to more important issues of life. I just think if we could take all the obsession with the personal (inaudible), and personal judgment and have people be concerned about the environment, what a different world we would live in.
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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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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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Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
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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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One of the things I find most exciting is talking with people who are working with my work. Who are using it in some way with their life to address everyday politics of meaning.
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Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become the place where revolutionary feminist thought and feminist activism are submerged or made secondary to the goals of academic careerism
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Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.
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I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
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Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy—“to stand outside”—comes to me in those moments when I am immersed so deeply in the act of thinking and writing that everything else, even flesh, falls away.
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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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Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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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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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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