You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
BELL HOOKSWhat we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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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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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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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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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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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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