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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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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Living simply makes loving simple.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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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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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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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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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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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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To know love we have to invest time and 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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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
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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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I think the Women’s movement has had a major impact on everybody’s lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
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The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
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