Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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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Living simply makes loving simple.
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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 do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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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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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.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
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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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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 function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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