Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
BELL HOOKSFeminism is for everybody.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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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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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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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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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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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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I think the Women’s movement has had a major impact on everybody’s lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
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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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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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Forgiveness 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?
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