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True Quotes by Bell Hooks
- The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny…
- We are rarely able to interact only with folks like ourselves, who think as we do. No matter how much some of us deny this…
- True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.
- When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise. They tell us paradise is our…
- Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.
- ..Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one’s own use - need not be…
- 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…
- To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to…
- Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair…
- A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment.…
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach