Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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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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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.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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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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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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I think the Women’s movement has had a major impact on everybody’s lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
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My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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