Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
BELL HOOKSBeing oppressed means the absence of choices.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
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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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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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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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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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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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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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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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