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.
BELL HOOKSI think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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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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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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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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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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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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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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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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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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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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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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Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
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