Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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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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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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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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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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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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Living simply makes loving simple.
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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 rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I’m committed to loving you, then it’s not possible for me to fall out of love.
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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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Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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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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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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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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To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
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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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