Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
BELL HOOKSLife-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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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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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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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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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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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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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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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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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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Feminism is for everybody.
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