One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
BELL HOOKSEvery terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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We 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.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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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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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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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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Living simply makes loving simple.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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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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When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.
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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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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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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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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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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.
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Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
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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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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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