The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
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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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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No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”. No woman has ever written enough.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
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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.
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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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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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Living simply makes loving simple.
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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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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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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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