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.
BELL HOOKSNo black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”. No woman has ever written enough.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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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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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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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 began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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