The true teacher is within us. A good teacher is someone who can help you to go back and touch the true teacher within, because you already have the insight within you.
Bell HooksRepresentation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind.
Bell HooksYou must have courage to love, you have to have a profound will to do what is right to love, and it does not come easy.
Bell HooksAll 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.
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