If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
BELL HOOKSI think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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To know love we have to invest time and 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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Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
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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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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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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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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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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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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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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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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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