Living simply makes loving simple.
BELL HOOKSThe rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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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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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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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 feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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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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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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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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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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