You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
BELL HOOKSI will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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Feminism is for everybody.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
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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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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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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.
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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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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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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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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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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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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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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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