If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
BELL HOOKSTo love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe – not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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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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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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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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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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