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.
BELL HOOKSWhat we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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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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The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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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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To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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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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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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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Love is really more of an interactive process. It’s about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun.
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