The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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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.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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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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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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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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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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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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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 think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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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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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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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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