What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
BELL HOOKSAll the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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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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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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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Feminism is for everybody.
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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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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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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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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 an action, never simply a feeling.
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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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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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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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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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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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