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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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Absence Choice Oppression

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The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
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Freedom Movement Politics Protection Society Speech
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
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Creature Earth Fear Inspirational People Surround
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
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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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Deep Imagination Inspirational
What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Believe Important Inspirational
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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Feminism One Liner
I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Children Different Experience Life People
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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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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Art Function Imagination Inspirational Possible
When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.
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Against Choice Choose Fear Love Separate
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Country Institution Library Public
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage

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