black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.

Bell Hooks

To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
BELL HOOKS

Beyond Imagination Possible Reality Vision
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
BELL HOOKS

Oppression Privilege Rage
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
BELL HOOKS

Book Ideas Life Transformation
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.
BELL HOOKS

Believe Commitment Each Other Endurance Health Impossible Individual Relationship Sustain
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.
BELL HOOKS

Book Delicious Divine Ideas Passion Reading Rule Time Truth Wonderful
There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
BELL HOOKS

Education Feminism Ideas Movement Understand
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.
BELL HOOKS

Destroy Existence Human Nature People Power Recognize See
To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
BELL HOOKS

Bond Love Relationship Romantic Task
Love is really more of an interactive process. It’s about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun.
BELL HOOKS

Feeling Interactive Love Process
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.
BELL HOOKS

Act Ego Learning Past
If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
BELL HOOKS

Action Difficult Fall Love Responsiblity
If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
BELL HOOKS

Beloved Community Justice Stand
We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they’re beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
BELL HOOKS

Beautiful Black Lives Matter Color Involvement Judgment Racism Skin Space Thinking
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.
BELL HOOKS

Impact Movement Nation Women Empowerment World
The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.
BELL HOOKS

Beginning Female Feminism Leaving Lose Love Ourselves Person Search
Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
BELL HOOKS

Genuine Gratitude Instant Love Need Rare Space

To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bell Hooks Quotes