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bell hooks

"When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment."

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Donna Grant

"Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal."

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Donna Grant

"Go! Yes, You! Go! I will not force you to like me; I will not force you to love me. Unconditional love has a condition inside it but there is no you in me. If I know my real me, then I know your real you. I know your value in me and I also know my value in you. If your value is not in me and my value is not in you, then I will not force you to like me; I will not force you to love me, so go!"

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Donna Grant

"Things had improved after he was born. We both loved him with such fervor that it was impossible that some wouldn't splash back on us."

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Donna Grant

"Two ways to treat a girl: Make her feel as a princess Or Make her feel as a slave."

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Donna Grant

"Marriage is a sacred-commitment."

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Donna Grant

"Your relationship with God has to be alive: Learn to be His child."

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Donna Grant

"When it comes to friendship, you should always focus on quality instead of quantity."

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Donna Grant

"Be the "Liker""If you want to be liked, BE THE LIKER! This was some of the best advice my enlightened mother ever gave me. Throughout my childhood, teen years, and adulthood, this golden nugget of simple wisdom empowered me to take personal responsibility for developing friendships. When you want to reach out, make new friends, and increase your likeability factor, step up and "like others first. They will usually mirror your initiative and like you back."

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Donna Grant

"A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards."

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Donna Grant

"We are all connected in spirit, in love and in faith."

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bell hooks
"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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bell hooks
"The confusion boys experience about their identity is heightened during adolescence. In many ways the fact that today's boy often has a wider range of emotional expression in early childhood, but if forced to suppress emotional awareness later on makes adolescence all the more stressful for boys. Tragically, were it not for the extreme violence that has erupted among teenage boys throughout our nation, the emotional life of boys would still be ignored. Although therapists tell us that mass media images of male violence and domination teach boys that violence is alluring and satisfying, when individual boys are violent, especially when they murder randomly, pundits tend to behave as though it were a mystery why boys are so violent."

Identity

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bell hooks
"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."

People

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bell hooks
"It is this dependency that became, and is, the breeding ground for abuses of power."

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bell hooks
"Patriarchal hip-hop ushered in a world where black males could declare that they were "keeping it real when what they were really doing was taking the dead patriarchal protest of the black power movement and rearticulating it in forms that, though entertaining, had for the most part no transformative power, no ability to intervene on the politics of domination, and turn the real lives of black men around."

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bell hooks
"I tell them that love is always there"that nothing can keep us from love if we dare to seek it and to treasure what we find."

Love

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"As a black woman interested in feminist movement, I am often asked whether being black is more important than being a woman; whether feminist struggle to end sexist oppression is more important than the struggle to racism or vice versa. All such questions are rooted in competitive either/or thinking, the belief that the self is formed in opposition to an other...Most people are socialized to think in terms of opposition rather than compatibility. Rather than seeing anti-racist work as totally compatible with working to end sexist oppression, they often see them as two movements competing for first place."

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"Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune."

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"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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"Men come to sex hoping that it will provide them with all of the emotional satisfaction that would have come from love. Most men think that sex will provide them with a sense of being alive, connected, that sex will offer closeness, intimacy, pleasure. And more often than not sex simply does not deliver the goods. This fact does not lead men to cease obsessing about sex; it intensifies their lust and their longing."

Affection

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