Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
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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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 our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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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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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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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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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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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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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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Living simply makes loving simple.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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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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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.
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