When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.
BELL HOOKSThere is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Feminism is for everybody.
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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
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Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power – not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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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.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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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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Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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