If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
BELL HOOKSLiving simply makes loving simple.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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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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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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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe – not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.
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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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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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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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Feminism is for everybody.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
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