Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
BELL HOOKSI feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Death 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.
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The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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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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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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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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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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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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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
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