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.
BELL HOOKSTo be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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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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Feminism is for everybody.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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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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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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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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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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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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