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Bell Hooks Quote - Being oppressed means the absence of choices.

Being oppressed means the absence of choices.

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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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Control Force Hurt Loss Love Outside Pain Practice Risk Safety
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
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Beyond Imagination Possible Reality Vision
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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Believe Commitment Each Other Endurance Health Impossible Individual Relationship Sustain
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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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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Dominate Society Violence
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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Beautiful Black Lives Matter Color Involvement Judgment Racism Skin Space Thinking
I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Action Couple Feeling Love One Liner
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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Change Enormous Excess Live People Realize Simplicity Social
If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Beloved Community Justice Stand
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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Beginning Female Feminism Leaving Lose Love Ourselves Person Search
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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Believe Ignorance Inspirational Life Women Power
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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Book Delicious Divine Ideas Passion Reading Rule Time Truth Wonderful
All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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Commitment Fall Men Problem
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation

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