As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
BELL HOOKSNo black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”. No woman has ever written enough.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
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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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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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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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Feminism is for everybody.
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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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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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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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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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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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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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