I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
BELL HOOKSTo know love we have to invest time and commitment.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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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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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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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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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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A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I’m committed to loving you, then it’s not possible for me to fall out of love.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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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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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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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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