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Practice Quotes by Bell Hooks
- Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with…
- I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom.
- The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination.
- When we are more energized by the practice of blaming than we are by efforts to create transformation, we not only cannot find relief from…
- I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive…
- Feminist education — the feminist classroom — is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there is visible acknowledgment…
- All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing…
- All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world.…
- None of us, irrespective of our sexual preference and/or practice, imagine that we can have an intimate relationship with a partner and always have seamless…
- In patriarchal culture men are especially inclined to see love as something they should receive without expending effort. More often than not they do not…
- The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
- 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 Practice Quotes
- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius
- I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. — Teresa of Avila
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong
- Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great… — Teresa of Avila
- Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the… — Hosea Ballou