If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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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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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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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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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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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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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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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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Living simply makes loving simple.
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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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