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.
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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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
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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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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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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
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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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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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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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