Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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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Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
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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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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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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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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 want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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