One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
BELL HOOKSI think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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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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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Love 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.
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Forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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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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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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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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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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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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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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