Bell Hooks

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.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

The people I love, I'm committed to loving for the rest of my life.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.