Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
BELL HOOKSTo know love we have to invest time and commitment.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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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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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
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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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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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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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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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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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Living simply makes loving simple.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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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 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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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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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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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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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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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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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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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
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