Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.
– bell hooks
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- I tell them that love is always there-“that nothing can keep us from love if we dare to seek it and to treasure what we find. – bell hooks
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- As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized. – bell hooks
- A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving… There can be no love without justice. – bell hooks
- First and foremost feminist movement urged females to no longer see ourselves and our bodies as the property of men. – bell hooks
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- ..think about the contradictions and complexities that beset people. – bell hooks
- Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair. – bell hooks
- Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune. – bell hooks
- True resistance begins with people confronting pain… and wanting to do something to change it. – bell hooks
- When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape. – bell hooks
- Do not expect to receive love from someone else you do not give yourself – bell hooks
- Action, like a sacrament, is the visible form of an invisible spirit, an outward manifestation of an inward power. – bell hooks
- Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.- – Bell Hooks – Win Quier
- black identities are diverse and complex-¦ – bell hooks
- The principle of equality, which is at the core of democratic values, has very little meaning in a world in which global oligarchy is taking over. – bell hooks
- It is this dependency that became, and is, the breeding ground for abuses of power. – bell hooks
- To critique sexist images without offering alternatives is an incomplete intervention. Critique in and of itself does not lead to change. – bell hooks
- Addiction makes love impossible. – bell hooks
- Experience is a supreme teacher, but experience is not something that can be taught. It has to be learned through choice and consequence. – Toni Sorenson
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- …action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher. – Idries Shah
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- We know the value of a blessing when we don’t have it. But we only know the value of knowledge when we have enough of it. – Raheel Farooq
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- If you feel trapped quit thinking about the trap and start thinking about your value. Life favors value. Value is your way out. – Bryant McGill
- It’s really simple. Sell high-value stuff to people who value high-value stuff. – Richie Norton