One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
BELL HOOKSClass is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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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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Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
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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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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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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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The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.
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Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
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