What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
BELL HOOKSWhat we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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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.
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It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
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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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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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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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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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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
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I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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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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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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