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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. ― Karl Marx
All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way. ― Bell Hooks
No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough ― bell hooks
As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a problem. Masses of people think that feminism is always and only about women seeking to be equal to men. And a huge majority of these folks think feminism is anti-male. Their misunderstanding of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks learn about feminism from patriarchal mass media. ― Bell Hooks
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 is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives. ― bell hooks
Absence, the highest form of presence.
At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul
Living simply makes loving simple. ― bell hooks
Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. - Nelson Mandela
