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.
BELL HOOKSThe function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
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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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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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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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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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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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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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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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Love is really more of an interactive process. It’s about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun.
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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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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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