I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.

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Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good...

Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good...

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and...

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and...

I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my...

I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my...

We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think...

We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think...

What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became...

What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became...

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for...

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for...

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is...

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is...

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of...

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of...

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move...

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move...

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that...

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that...

No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as...

No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as...

The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able...

The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able...

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody...

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody...

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to...

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to...

I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women,...

I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women,...

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the...

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the...

There are so many exceptions to free speech: child pornography, cross burning, libel, fighting words.

There are so many exceptions to free speech: child pornography, cross burning, libel, fighting words.

Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act,...

Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act,...

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted