If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
BELL HOOKSForgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”. No woman has ever written enough.
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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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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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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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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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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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