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.
BELL HOOKSI will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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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 began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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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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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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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 our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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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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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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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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