The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
BELL HOOKSWhenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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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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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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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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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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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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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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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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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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