Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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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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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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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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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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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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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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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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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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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The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
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