When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
BELL HOOKSHonesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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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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If 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.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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I 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.
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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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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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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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Feminism is for everybody.
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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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Once 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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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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