Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
BELL HOOKSFeminism is for everybody.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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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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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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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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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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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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I think the Women’s movement has had a major impact on everybody’s lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
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A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I’m committed to loving you, then it’s not possible for me to fall out of love.
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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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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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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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