The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
BELL HOOKSLiving simply makes loving simple.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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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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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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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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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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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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Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe – not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.
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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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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
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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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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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