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 HOOKSOnce you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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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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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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I think the Women’s movement has had a major impact on everybody’s lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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