What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
BELL HOOKSI began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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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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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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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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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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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.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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