The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
BELL HOOKSLife-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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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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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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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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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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