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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that's feminism.
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#Better
#Care
#Face
#Struggle
#Women
Live simply so that others may simply live.
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#Live
#May
#Others
#Simply
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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#Believe
#Equality
#Men
#Sad
#Women
I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place.
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#Body
#Living Room
#Me
#Mind
#Travel
Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits.
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#Every
#Isolation
#People
#Spirits
#World
I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.
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#Accept
#Alone
#Children
#Feel
#Quiet
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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#Experience
#Islam
#Path
#Wisdom
#World
Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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#About
#Class
#Knowledge
#Money
#More
We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
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#Beautiful
#Internet
#Judge
#Skin
#Space
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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#House
#Me
#Mother
#Smile
#Stand
I love my family, even as I critique their dysfunctionalities.
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#Critique
#Even
#Family
#I Love
#Love
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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#Black
#Control
#Convince
#Media
#Still
Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
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#Always
#Death
#Life
#Moment
#Time
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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#Always
#Books
#Ideas
#Me
#Through
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
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#Creatures
#Earth
#Fear
#People
#Us
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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#Know
#Knowing
#Love
#More
#Time
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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#Change
#Hope
#Once
#People
#See
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
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#Down
#Ignorance
#Life
#My Life
#Will
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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#Country
#Justice
#Love
#Movement
#Rights
If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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#Children
#Life
#Self-Love
#Sound
#Will
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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#Feel
#Love Is
#Love
#More
#Process
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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#Death
#Food
#Life
#Poverty
#Terrorism
For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
- bell hooks
#Believe
#Forgiveness
#Humanity
#Me
#Time
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