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 HOOKSIt’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.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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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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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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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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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.
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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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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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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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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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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.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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