Patriarchy has no gender.
BELL HOOKSWe judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they’re beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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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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Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
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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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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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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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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”. No woman has ever written enough.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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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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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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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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