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I don't think you can hate anything that you know intimately. There is no fine line separating love from hate because there's a deep chasm separating love from hate.
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A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I'm committed to loving you, then it's not possible for me to 'fall out of love.'
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Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.
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The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of people and that one did not have to continue the personal consciousness-raising and changing of one's viewpoint.
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An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that's feminism.
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The ethic of liberal individualism has so deeply permeated the psyches of blacks... of all classes that we have little support for a political ethic of communalism that promotes the sharing of resources.
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I can be standing in Barneys with my coat and purse and my selections, and some white woman will say, 'Can you get this in my size?' What she sees is a black woman, and her service button goes off.
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To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.
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In this culture, the phrase 'black woman' is not synonymous with 'tender,' or 'gentle.' It's as if those words couldn't possibly speak to the reality of black females.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Using pseudonyms was such a part of the early feminist movement. We didn't want to have this star system. We wanted attention on the ideas, not the persona of the writer.
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I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and just smile at everyone who walked by. Like, 'Please take me with you!'
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Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.
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My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.
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In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we have no time to love.
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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.
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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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The working-class black Southern Christian culture I come from still nurtures me, and I mean directly, daily.
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All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.
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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.
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Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
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The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
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But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.
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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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I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.
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What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force.
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I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
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I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.
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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?
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