The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
BELL HOOKSLiving simply makes loving simple.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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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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I think the Women’s movement has had a major impact on everybody’s lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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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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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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