Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
BELL HOOKSAll the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
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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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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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When 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.
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Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power – not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they’re beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
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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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Feminism is for everybody.
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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 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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