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.
BELL HOOKSSometimes 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.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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?
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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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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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