bell hooks

“Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect, and trust.”

“To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.”

“The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy.”

“Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.”

“What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.”

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

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

“There can be no love without justice.”

“Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma paralyzes.”

“The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.”

“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.”

“The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.”

“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”

“When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.”

“Justice demands integrity. It's to have a moral universe — not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, find the given logic in things.”

“Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.”

“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 consumer...education as the practice of freedom.”

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

“One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others.”

“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 a stop to it.”