The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination.

Bell hooks

If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.

Bell hooks

One of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.

Bell hooks

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

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You are not going to destroy this imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy by creating your own version of it.

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True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.

Bell hooks

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

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I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.

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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.

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Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.

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Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?

Bell hooks

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.

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