Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
BELL HOOKSI think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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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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The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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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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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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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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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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