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?
BELL HOOKSThe rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
-
-
Feminism is for everybody.
BELL HOOKS -
Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
BELL HOOKS -
If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
BELL HOOKS -
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.
BELL HOOKS -
Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
BELL HOOKS -
To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
BELL HOOKS -
Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
BELL HOOKS -
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
BELL HOOKS -
Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
BELL HOOKS -
The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
BELL HOOKS -
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
BELL HOOKS -
There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
BELL HOOKS -
Living simply makes loving simple.
BELL HOOKS -
As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
BELL HOOKS -
Patriarchy has no gender.
BELL HOOKS