To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
BELL HOOKSTo know love we have to invest time and commitment.
BELL HOOKSIf any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
BELL HOOKSHonesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
BELL HOOKSAll our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
BELL HOOKSFeminism is for everybody.
BELL HOOKSLove 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 HOOKSLife-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
BELL HOOKSThe practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
BELL HOOKSI 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.
BELL HOOKSThe rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
BELL HOOKSThere is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
BELL HOOKSI feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
BELL HOOKSWhat we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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.
BELL HOOKSThe 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 HOOKSOnce 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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