As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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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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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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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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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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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Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
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I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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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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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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