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.
BELL HOOKSWhat we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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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 feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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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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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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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
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