I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
BELL HOOKSLife-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
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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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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
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The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
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It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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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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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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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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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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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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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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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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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I’m committed to loving you, then it’s not possible for me to fall out of love.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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