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"To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility."
"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."
"Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is."
"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."
"When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better."
"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."
"How different things might be if, rather than saying "I think I'm in love," we were saying "I've connected with someone in a way that makes me think I'm on the way to knowing love." Or if instead of saying "I am in love" we say "I am loving" or "I will love." Our patterns around romantic love are unlikely to change if we do not change our language."
"No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women."
"Without justice there can be no love."
"The true teacher is within us. A good teacher is someone who can help you to go back and touch the true teacher within, because you already have the insight within you."
"One of the things that we must do as teachers is twirl around and around, and find out what works with the situation that we're in. Our models might not work. And that twirling, changing, is part of the empowerment."
"Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that would be even more alienated and violent if caring women did not do the work of teaching men who have lost touch with themselves how to love again. This labor of love is futile only when the men in question refuse to awaken, refuse growth. At this point it is a gesture of self-love for women to break their commitment and move on."
"Only grown-ups think that the things children say come out of nowhere. We know they come from the deepest parts of ourselves."
"What we cannot imagine cannot come into being."
"I think our culture doesn't recognize passion, because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries."
"..Critically intervene in a way that challenges and changes."
"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."
"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."
"America is a country that would rather talk about race than class."
"Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels."