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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More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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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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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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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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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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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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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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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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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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Living simply makes loving simple.
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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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