Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
BELL HOOKSI will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
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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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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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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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The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
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No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”. No woman has ever written enough.
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Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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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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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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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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