If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
BELL HOOKSA 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.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Feminism is for everybody.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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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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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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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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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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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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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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