All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
BELL HOOKSYou can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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Feminism is for everybody.
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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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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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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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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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