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• Time and time again when I talk to individuals about approaching love with will and intentionality, I hear the fear expressed that this will bring an end to romance. This is simply not so. Approaching romantic love from foundation of care, knowledge, and respect actually intensifies romance

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  Romantic Love, Romance, Foundation

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• Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world stops affirming us, that we are seen as unlovable.

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  Girl, Children, Independent

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• Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.

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  Heart, People, Cynical

  "All About Love: New Visions". Book by Nell Hooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2000.

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• Within the new self-help books for women, patriarachy and male domination are rarely identified as forces that lead to the oppression, exploitation, and domination of women. Instead, these books suggest that individual relationships between men and women can be changed solely by women making the right choices.

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  Book, Men, Self

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.45, Routledge

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• Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.

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  Would Be, Definitions, How To Love

  bell hooks (2018). “All About Love: New Visions”, p.4, HarperCollins

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• ..Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one’s own use - need not be synonymous with exploitation. This is especially true of cultural appropriation. The “use” one makes of what is appropriated is the crucial factor.

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  Needs, Use, Process

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• 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.

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  Spiritual, Teacher, Buddhism

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• Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives.

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  Real, Believe, Love Is

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• If we move away from either/or thinking, and if we think, okay, every day of my life that I walk out of my house I am a combination of race, gender, class, sexual preference and religion or what have you, what gets foregrounded?

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  Moving, Thinking, Race

  Source: nefac.net

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• I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.

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  Believe, Two, Healthy

  bell hooks, Cornel West (2016). “Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life”, p.120, Routledge

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• When women and men understand that working to eradicate patriarchal domination is a struggle rooted in the longing to make a world where everyone can live fully and freely, then we know our work to be a gesture of love. Let us draw upon that love to heighten our awareness, deepen our compassion, intensify our courage and strengthen our commitment.

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  Struggle, Commitment, Compassion

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.39, Routledge

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• They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as patriarchs, by other men, including white men. Yet they could not assume this position if black women were not willing to conform to prevailing sexist gender norms. Many black women who has endured white-supremacist patriarchal domination during slavery did not want to be dominated by black men after manumission.

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  Men, White Man, Black

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• A central tenet of modern feminist thought has been the assertion that "all women are oppressed." This assertion implies that women share a common lot, that factors like class, race, religion, sexual preference, etc. do not create a diversity of experience that determines the extent to which sexism will be an oppressive force in the lives of individual women.

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  Race, Class, Diversity

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.5, Routledge

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• . . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression.

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  Pain, Stress, Play

  bell hooks, Cornel West (2016). “Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life”, p.110, Routledge

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• While privacy strengthens all our bonds, secrecy weakens and damages connection. Lerner points out that we do not usually "know the emotional costs of keeping a secret" until the truth is disclosed. Usually, secrecy involves lying. And lying is always the setting for potential betrayal and violation of trust.

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  Betrayal, Lying, Emotional

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• The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

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  Political, Movement, Speech

  bell hooks (2012). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.75, Routledge

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• I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place.

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  Girl, Travel, Moving

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• Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us.

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  Play, Feminism, Scams

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• 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.

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  Use, Shapes, Wells

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• I gather together the dreams, fantasies, experiences that preoccupied me as a girl, that stay with me and appear and reappear in different shapes and forms in all my work. Without telling everything that happened, they document all that remains most vivid.

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  Girl, Dream, Together

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• To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.

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  Determination, Self, Black

  "Killing Rage: Ending Racism". Book by Bell Hooks, September 15, 1995.

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• I think this is often misunderstood in the West, where people feel that there can be no justice unless everything is the same. This is part of why I feel we have to relearn how we think about love, because we think about love so much in terms of the self.

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  Love Is, Thinking, Self

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• I guess I wish we could talk about: what does it mean to have a politics of intersectionality that also privileges what form of domination is most oppressing us at a given moment in time.

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  Mean, Wish, Doe

  Source: nefac.net

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• We have to look at the substance of something rather than the shadow.

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  Shadow, Substance, Looks

  Source: nefac.net

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• Dare to look at the intersectionalities.

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  Looks, Dare, Intersectionality

  Source: nefac.net

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