The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
BELL HOOKSThere will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
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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 people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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