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.
BELL HOOKSTo love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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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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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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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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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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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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