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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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"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?"

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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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"What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe."

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"One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others."

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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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"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."

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"Feminism is for everybody."

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"'Queer' not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live."

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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?"

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"I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education that connects the will to know with the will to become."

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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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"Healthy families resolve conflict without coercion, shaming, or violence."

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"In its deepest sense, grief is a burning of the heart, an intense heat that gives us solace and release."

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"Without justice there can be no love."

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