Life Quotes by Bell Hooks

If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.

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Spirituality and spiritual life give us the strength to love.

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“they have the right to fall when life comes to an end to move in harmony with fate”

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I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words.

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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.

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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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The people I love, I'm committed to loving for the rest of my life.

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All my life I have longed to have a loving relationship that would last a lifetime.

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Is it more important that you, as a white male, read my work and learn from it, or what you call me?…

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The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously…

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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…

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“The widespread assumption that ethical behavior takes the fun out of life is false. In actuality, living ethically ensures that relationships in…

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Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others…

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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…

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My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is…

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“…there is not a day of my life that I am not critiquing myself to see if my politics are borne out…

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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…

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Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically,…

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“We need to theorize the meaning of beauty in our lives so that we can educate for critical consciousness, talking through the…

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We live in a world with serious class complexes. It is one thing to be a college student with loan debts and…

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I was teasing my brother that he was penniless, homeless, jobless. Right now in his life, racism isn't the central highlighting force:…

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Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that…

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Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in…

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It's interesting--the way in which one has to balance life--because you have to know when to let go and when to pull…

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“Once upon a time black male “cool” was defined by the ways in which black men confronted hardships of life without allowing…

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“Writing is my passion. Words are the way to know ecstasy. Without them life is barren. The poet insists, language is a…

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If we move away from either/or thinking, and if we think, okay, every day of my life that I walk out of…

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Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for…

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No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are…

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“Moving from silence into speech is for the oppressed, the colonized, the exploited, and those who stand and struggle side by side…

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“Whether or not any of us become racists is a choice we make. And we are called to choose again and again…

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I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in…

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It's really important to have life strategies and part of that is sort of knowing where you want to go so you…

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“I write these words to bear witness to the primacy of resistance struggle in any situation of domination (even within family life);…

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Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions…

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We are rarely able to interact only with folks like ourselves, who think as we do. No matter how much some of…

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I think we are obsessed in the U.S. with the personal, in ways that blind us to more important issues of life.…

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A distinction must be made between that writing which enables us to hold on to life even as we are clinging to…

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One of the greatest difficulties the left faces in reaching out to masses of people in America is its profound disrespect of…

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“A shift in class values occurs in black life when integration comes and with it the idea that money is the primary…

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