Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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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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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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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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Living simply makes loving simple.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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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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Feminism is for everybody.
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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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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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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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