I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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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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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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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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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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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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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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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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When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.
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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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