I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
BELL HOOKSLife-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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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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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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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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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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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?
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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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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To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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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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