Patriarchy has no gender.
BELL HOOKSLove 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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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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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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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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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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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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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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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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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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