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.
BELL HOOKSBeing oppressed means the absence of choices.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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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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Feminism is for everybody.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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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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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 believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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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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The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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