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 HOOKSIf 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.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
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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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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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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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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 greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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