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Bell Hooks Inspirational Quotes (176)

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Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Knowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair.
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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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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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Without justice there can be no love.
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Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels.
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I think part of Western metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other.
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I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that is redemptive, full of hope and possibility. Not this “In order to love you, I must make you something else”. That’s what domination is all about, that in order to be close to you, I must possess you, remake and recast you.
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The soul of our politics is the commitment to ending domination.
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A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers - the experience of knowing we always belong.
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. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression.
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I think inequality is in our minds. I think this is what we learn through practice... The bridge of illusion must be shattered in order for a real bridge to be constructed. One of the things we learn is that inequality is an illusion.
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Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse.
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My work is mostly influenced by the concrete circumstances of our daily lives.
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Let's face it, war in its essence is another form of capitalism.
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I gather together the dreams, fantasies, experiences that preoccupied me as a girl, that stay with me and appear and reappear in different shapes and forms in all my work. Without telling everything that happened, they document all that remains most vivid.
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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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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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Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to process all our issues, to cope with differences and conflict while staying connected.
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Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical dualism, many of us have accepted the notion that there is a split between the body and the mind. Believing this, individuals enter the classroom to teach as though only the mind is present, and not the body.
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Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
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