I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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.
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If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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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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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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When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
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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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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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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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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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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 one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.
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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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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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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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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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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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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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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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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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Love is really more of an interactive process. It’s about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun.
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Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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