bell hooks Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Live simply so that others may simply live.
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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 began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.
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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 love my family, even as I critique their dysfunctionalities.
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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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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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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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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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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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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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The ethic of liberal individualism has so deeply permeated the psyches of blacks... of all classes that we have little support for a political ethic of communalism that promotes the sharing of resources.
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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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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.
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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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I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.