If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
BELL HOOKSLiving simply makes loving simple.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they’re beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
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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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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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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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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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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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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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The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
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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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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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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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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 cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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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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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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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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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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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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Feminism is for everybody.
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