Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with the opportunity to have the unconditional love we may have always longed to receive from someone else.
Bell HooksI think we have to talk about educating the people for critical consciousness about what anarchy is.
Bell HooksOur hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.
Bell HooksFew people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger.
Bell HooksIn order for me to engage in a revolutionary struggle for collective Black self-determination, I have to engage feminism because that becomes the vehicle by which I project myself as a female into the heart of the struggle, but the heart of the struggle does not begin with feminism. It begins with an understanding of domination and with a critique of domination in all its forms.
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