bell hooks

Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.

Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that's feminism.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.

What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.

These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force.

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.