If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
BELL HOOKSKnowing 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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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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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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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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 rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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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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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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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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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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