All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
BELL HOOKSWe 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.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
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A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I’m committed to loving you, then it’s not possible for me to fall out of love.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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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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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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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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Forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
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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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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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