The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.
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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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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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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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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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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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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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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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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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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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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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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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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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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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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