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“Usually, when people talk about the "strength" of black women . . . . they ignore the reality that to be strong in the face of oppression is not the same as overcoming oppression, that endurance is not to be confused with transformation.”
― bell hooks

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“feminism is for everybody”
― bell hooks

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“For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?”
― bell hooks

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#4

“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.”
― bell hooks

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“Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

tags: love

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#6

“Without justice there can be no love.”
― bell hooks

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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.”
― Bell Hooks

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#8

“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: soul, truth

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#9

“And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”
― Walt Whitman

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#10

“Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: alone, help, inspirational, light, world

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#11

“Argue not concerning God,…re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul…”
― Walt Whitman

tags: personal-faith, religion

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#12

“The real war will never get in the books.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: rewriting-history

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#13

“Peace is always beautiful.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

tags: peace, poetry

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#14

“God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: bully, children, mean, pugnacious, revenge, standards

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#15

“If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

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#16

“I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.”
― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

tags: compassionate, empathy

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#17

“These are the days that must happen to you.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: live-in-the-moment, live-life

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#18

“Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: dismiss, inspirational, soul, spirituality, wisdom

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#19

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

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#20

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

tags: burdens, empowerment, flying, freedom, unburdening, weight

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#21

“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

tags: friendship, love

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#22

“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

tags: labels

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#23

“Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

tags: babyghosts, insanity, misunderstandings, sisters

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#24

“You are your best thing”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

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#25

“There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the rocker. It's an inside kind--wrapped tight like skin. Then there is the loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive. On its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one's own feet going seem to come from a far-off place.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

tags: loneliness, loneliness-quotes, lonely, self-hel, self-soothing

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“Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I don't think it's any of that — it's helpless ... it's absence of control — and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers ... and anger doesn't provide any of that — I have no use for it whatsoever."

[Interview with CBS radio host Don Swaim, September 15, 1987.]”
― Toni Morrison

tags: anger, control, emotions, inspiration, power, writing

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#27

“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

tags: freedom, self

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#28

“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
― Toni Morrison

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#29

“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”
― Toni Morrison

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#30

“The function of freedom is to free someone else.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: inspirational, responsibility

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