black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.

Bell Hooks

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.
BELL HOOKS

Beginning Female Feminism Leaving Lose Love Ourselves Person Search
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.
BELL HOOKS

Act Ego Learning Past
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.
BELL HOOKS

Complex Demand Integrity Justice Moral Perspective Requirement Right Universe Weight Wrong
Living simply makes loving simple.
BELL HOOKS

Live Love Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
BELL HOOKS

Dialogue Foundation Honesty Insight Open Minded
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
BELL HOOKS

Beyond Imagination Possible Reality Vision
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
BELL HOOKS

Act Feminism Racism Silence
Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
BELL HOOKS

Class Education Knowledge Money
The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
BELL HOOKS

Art Function Imagination Inspirational Possible
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?
BELL HOOKS

Account Believe Capacity Compassion Forgiveness Humanity Time Transfomation Wrong
To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
BELL HOOKS

Bond Love Relationship Romantic Task
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
BELL HOOKS

Change Enormous Excess Live People Realize Simplicity Social
There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
BELL HOOKS

Act Death Life Violence
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.
BELL HOOKS

Beautiful Black Lives Matter Color Involvement Judgment Racism Skin Space Thinking
What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
BELL HOOKS

Deep Imagination Inspirational
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
BELL HOOKS

Book Country Love Writing

The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bell Hooks Quotes