We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they’re beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
BELL HOOKSOnce you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
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Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power – not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.
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There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
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When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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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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Feminism is for everybody.
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