There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
BELL HOOKSThere is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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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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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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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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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 be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
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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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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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