Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
BELL HOOKSEvery terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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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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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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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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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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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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