I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
BELL HOOKSIf 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.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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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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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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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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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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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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I think the Women’s movement has had a major impact on everybody’s lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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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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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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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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Feminism is for everybody.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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