I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
BELL HOOKSTo love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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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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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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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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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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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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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 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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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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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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