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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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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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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Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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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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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
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The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.
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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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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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