All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
BELL HOOKSPatriarchy has no gender.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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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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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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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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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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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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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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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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