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World Quotes by Bell Hooks
- 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…
- Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that…
- Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world stops affirming us,…
- My hope emerges from those places of struggle where I witness individuals positively transforming their lives and the world around them. Educating is a vocation rooted…
- 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…
- Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to…
- I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
- The time has come to tell the truth. Again. There is no love without justice. Men and women who cannot be just deny themselves and…
- Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.
- I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that is redemptive, full…
- Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear,…
- We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is…
- Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact…
- Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that…
- 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…
- 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.…
- Privilege is not in and of itself bad; what matters is what we do with privilege. I want to live in a world where all…
- Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black identity be defined…
- It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think…
- Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that in dominator culture,…
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani