All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
BELL HOOKSSince loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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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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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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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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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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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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