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Act Quotes by Bell Hooks
- The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love, we begin to move toward…
- I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining, come to understand…
- When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.
- White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.
- 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…
- Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative…
- For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part…
- Even the most subjected person has moments of rage and resentment so intense that they respond, they act against. There is an inner uprising that…
- The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in…
- It is necessary to remember, as we think critically about domination, that we all have the capacity to act in ways that oppress, dominate, wound…
- Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression in the family…
- Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy—“to stand outsideâ€â€”comes to me in those…
- The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards…
More Act Quotes
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers… — Bruce Babbitt