I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
BELL HOOKSI think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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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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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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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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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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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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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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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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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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Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe – not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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