Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
BELL HOOKSTo know love we have to invest time and commitment.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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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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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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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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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”. No woman has ever written enough.
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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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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe – not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.
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