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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Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.
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A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I'm committed to loving you, then it's not possible for me to 'fall out of love.'
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I love my family, even as I critique their dysfunctionalities.
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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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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.
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For me, 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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Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.
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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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Live simply so that others may simply live.
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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 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. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.
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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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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.
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What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force.
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We 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.
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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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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.