Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
BELL HOOKSIf we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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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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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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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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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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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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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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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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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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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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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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