"Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to……" — Bell Hooks
"Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life."
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251 Quotes by Bell Hooks
Bell Hooks has 251 quotes on this site.
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The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love,…
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Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.
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Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we…
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The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength…
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Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would…
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All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if…
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I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of…
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People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.
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Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to…
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I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via…
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The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself…
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Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of…
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy…
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Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
— George W. Bush
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What we need to affirm is that Jesus is neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Whenever we marry Jesus to…
— Tony Campolo
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In a pitch black room, you can affirm "let their be light" or you can light one candle.
— Ken McCarthy
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Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of…
— Alfred Binet
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You know, in the oath that brand-new citizens take, it contains six different references to 'the law.' If it's good…
— Trey Gowdy
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The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Worship is the highest act of which a person is capable. It not only stretches us beyond all the limits…
— Unknown Author
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The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love…
— Alan Cohen
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In 1891, during the Presidency of William Henry Harrison [Benjamin Harrison], electric lights were first installed in the White House,…
— Jimmy Carter
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I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity…
— Norman Cousins
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An affirmation states that a goal is already happening. I'm not crazy about this because, often when we affirm something…
— T. Harv Eker
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