Living simply makes loving simple.
BELL HOOKSNo black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”. No woman has ever written enough.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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I think the Women’s movement has had a major impact on everybody’s lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
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I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
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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.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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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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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?
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The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
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If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
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