The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
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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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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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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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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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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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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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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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