If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
BELL HOOKSWhen we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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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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To know love we have to invest time and 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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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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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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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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