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 HOOKSIf 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.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe – not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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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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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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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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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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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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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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