Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
BELL HOOKSDeath is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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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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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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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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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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When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.
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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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