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• 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.

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  Love, Opportunity, Practice

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• War in its essence is another form of capitalism. Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them. So much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group.

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  War, Essence, People

  "How Do You Practice Intersectionalism? An Interview with bell hooks". Interview with Randy Lowens, nefac.net. March 15, 2012.

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• The soul of our politics is the commitment to ending domination.

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  Commitment, Soul, Domination

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.103, Routledge

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• Living simply makes loving simple.

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  Simple, Simplicity

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• Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and whether that work enhances our well-being.

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  Love, Self, Would Be

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• Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love

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  Lying, Acceptance, Reason

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• When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.

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  Lying, Men, Telling The Truth

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• Spirituality and spiritual life give us the strength to love.

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  Love, Spiritual, Giving

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• It is necessary to remember, as we think critically about domination, that we all have the capacity to act in ways that oppress, dominate, wound (whether or not that power is institutionalized). It is necessary to remember that it is first the potential oppressor within that we must resist – the potential victim within that we must rescue – otherwise we cannot hope for an end to domination, for liberation.

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  Thinking, Way, Firsts

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.33, Routledge

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• Intersectionality allow us to focus on what is most important at a given point in time.

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  Focus, Important, Given

  Source: nefac.net

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• Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.

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  Honesty, Heart, Commitment

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• The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community.

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  Community, Challenges, These Days

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• No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.

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  Men, White, America

  bell hooks (2014). “Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism”, p.7, Routledge

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• Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.

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  Meaningful, Knowing, Love Relationship

  A chat with Bell Hooks, www.cnn.com. February 17, 2000.

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• Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No one has ever explained why accurately naming this system is funny. The laughter is itself a weapon of patriarchal terrorism.

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  Laughter, White, Laughing

  bell hooks (2004). “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all that is good remains wedded to the very logic of Western metaphysical dualism that is the heart of racist binary thinking. Such thinking is not liberatory. Like the racist educational ideology it mirrors and imitates, it invites a closing of the mind.

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  Educational, Heart, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Happiness, Success, Perseverance

  "Bell hooks talks to John Perry Barlow". www.lionsroar.com. September 1, 1995.

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• Of all the definitions of love that abound in our universe, a special favorite of mine is... “the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.”

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  Spiritual, Self, Growth

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

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• When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture.

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  Expression, Names, Profound

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope”, p.14, Routledge

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• Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

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  Shame, Produce, Trauma

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• Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that would be even more alienated and violent if caring women did not do the work of teaching men who have lost touch with themselves how to love again. This labor of love is futile only when the men in question refuse to awaken, refuse growth. At this point it is a gesture of self-love for women to break their commitment and move on.

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  Moving, Teaching, Commitment

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• Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe — not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.

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  Integrity, Justice, Perspective

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• The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our ‘natural’ condition.

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  Believe, Love Is, Our Society

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• …“white supremacy” is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not involve force (i.e slavery, apartheid) than the term “internalized racism”- a term most often used to suggest that black people have absorbed negative feelings and attitudes about blackness. The term “white supremacy” enables us to recognize not only that black people are socialized to embody the values and attitudes of white supremacy, but we can exercise “white supremacist control” over other black people.

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  Attitude, Exercise, Color

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• The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.

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  Revolution, Fierce, Progressive

  bell hooks (2012). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.7, Routledge

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