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.
BELL HOOKSKnowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power – not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.
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Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
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Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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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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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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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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