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Been Quotes by Bell Hooks
- Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has…
- Part of the heart of anarchy is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking about our realities. Anarchists have always…
- I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming…
- Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always…
- 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…
- The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be…
- It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of…
- Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in…
- Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. These workshops are important, yet they…
- Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does…
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- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.'… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, not what I've been through. So stop judging me, and… — Nishan Panwar
- I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you… — Orlando Bloom