Feminism is for everybody.
BELL HOOKSDeath 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.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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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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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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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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Living simply makes loving simple.
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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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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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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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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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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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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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