The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
BELL HOOKSI 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.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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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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Living simply makes loving simple.
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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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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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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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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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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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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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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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