black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.

Bell Hooks

Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
BELL HOOKS

Dialogue Foundation Honesty Insight Open Minded
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
BELL HOOKS

Children Different Experience Life People
The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
BELL HOOKS

Freedom Movement Politics Protection Society Speech
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 HOOKS

Beginning Female Feminism Leaving Lose Love Ourselves Person Search
Living simply makes loving simple.
BELL HOOKS

Live Love Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
BELL HOOKS

Genuine Gratitude Instant Love Need Rare Space
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.
BELL HOOKS

Feeling Interactive Love Process
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.
BELL HOOKS

Commitment Love Possible
What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
BELL HOOKS

Believe Important Inspirational
There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
BELL HOOKS

Act Death Life Violence
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
BELL HOOKS

Commitment Investment Love Time
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.
BELL HOOKS

Destroy Existence Human Nature People Power Recognize See
Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
BELL HOOKS

Action Couple Feeling Love One Liner
Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
BELL HOOKS

Absence Choice Oppression
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.
BELL HOOKS

Death Life Moments Reality Time
There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
BELL HOOKS

Education Feminism Ideas Movement Understand

If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bell Hooks Quotes