You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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More Bell Hooks Quotes
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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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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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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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.
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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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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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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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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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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 began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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