Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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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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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Living simply makes loving simple.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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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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We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they’re beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
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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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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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The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”. No woman has ever written enough.
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