Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
BELL HOOKSWhen 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.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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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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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
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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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Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power – not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.
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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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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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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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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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