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.
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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A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I’m committed to loving you, then it’s not possible for me to fall out of love.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
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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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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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The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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