If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
BELL HOOKSThe rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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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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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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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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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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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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If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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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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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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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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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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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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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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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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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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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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