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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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
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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 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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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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Feminism is for everybody.
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