The message received from the mass media is that knowledge m... - bell hooks

"Living simply makes loving simple."

"Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape."

"feminism is for everybody"

"To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone. Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what I should be. School was the place where I could forget that self and, through ideas, reinvent myself."

"Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope."