I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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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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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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It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
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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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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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Living simply makes loving simple.
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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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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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