"If I do not speak in a language……" — Bell Hooks

"If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue."

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251 Quotes by Bell Hooks

Bell Hooks has 251 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love,…
Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.
Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we…
The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength…
Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would…
All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if…
I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of…
People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.
Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to…
I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via…
The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself…
Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of…

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those… — Adam Arkin
I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new… — Darren Aronofsky
If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. — Jane Austen
Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality… — Paul Auster
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own… — Paul Auster
First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance… — Oksana Baiul
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. — Abigail Adams
In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites… — Ansel Adams
Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. — Honore de Balzac
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be… — Ernie Banks

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