One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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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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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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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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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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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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I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
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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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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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Love is really more of an interactive process. It’s about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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