There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
BELL HOOKSThere will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
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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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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
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Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
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A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I’m committed to loving you, then it’s not possible for me to fall out of love.
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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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Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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