If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency. ― bell hooks

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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. ― bell hooks

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There isn’t time—so brief is life—for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving—and but an instant, so to speak, for that. — Mark Twain

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A Senegalese poet said 'In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.' We must learn about other cultures in order to understand, in order to love, and in order to preserve our common world heritage.

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For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community. — Joe Biden

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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

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We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water. ― Desmond Tutu

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You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate. - Bryant H. McGill

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You never stop loving someone. You just learn to live without them.

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What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.

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