Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
BELL HOOKSI feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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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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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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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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Forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
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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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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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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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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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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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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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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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