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• Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

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  Love, Life, Meaningful

  "Time Spent in a Psych Ward" by Erin Nugent, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2015.

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• It is important and vital is to keep that education for critical consciousness around intersectionalities, so that people are able to not focus on one thing and blame one group, but be able to look holistically at the way intersectionality informs all of us: whiteness, gender, sexual preferences, etc. Only then can we have a realistic handle on the political and cultural world we live within.

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  People, Political, Focus

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• When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture.

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  Expression, Names, Profound

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope”, p.14, Routledge

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• One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.

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  Library, United States, Institutions

  bell hooks (2003). “Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• The intellectual tradition of the West is very individualistic. It's not community-based. The intellectual is often thought of as a person who is alone and cut off from the world. So I have had to practice being willing to leave the space of my study to be in community, to work in community, and to be changed by community.

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  Cutting, Practice, Space

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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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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  Inspiring, Live Life, Justice

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.118, Routledge

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• 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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  Happiness, Success, Perseverance

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• The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community.

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  Community, Challenges, These Days

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• In 2014, when Hillary Clinton was not yet running for president, I stated that I was not in agreement with her politics. More recently, when asked my thoughts about Hillary Clinton during a public conversation with Gloria Steinem, I stated, "she embodies the very best of imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't vote for her."

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  Running, Mean, Agreement

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• 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.

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  Heart, Knowing, Needs

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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.

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  Responsibility, Thinking, Accountability

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• There is light in darkness, you just have to find it.

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  Light, Darkness

  bell hooks (2013). “remembered rapture: the writer at work”, p.3, Macmillan

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• All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.

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  Believe, Commitment, Expression

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• Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.

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  Love, Giving, Self Love

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• Without justice there can be no love.

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  Justice, No Love

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• Living simply makes loving simple.

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  Simple, Simplicity

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• Spirituality and spiritual life give us the strength to love.

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  Love, Spiritual, Giving

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• 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.

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  Romantic Love, Thinking, Knowing Love

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• The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.

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  Self Esteem, Heart, Self Love

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• When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.

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  Love, Self, Growth

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• Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and whether that work enhances our well-being.

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  Love, Self, Would Be

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• Of all the definitions of love that abound in our universe, a special favorite of mine is... “the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.”

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  Spiritual, Self, Growth

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.

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  Race, Talking, Class

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• Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with the opportunity to have the unconditional love we may have always longed to receive from someone else.

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  Love, Opportunity, Practice

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• When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.

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  Lying, Men, Telling The Truth

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