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?
BELL HOOKSLife-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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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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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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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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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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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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