Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
BELL HOOKSI began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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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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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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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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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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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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.
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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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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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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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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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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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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”. No woman has ever written enough.
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