You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
BELL HOOKSMy 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.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Feminism is for everybody.
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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 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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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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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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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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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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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 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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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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