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 HOOKSThe 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.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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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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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
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I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
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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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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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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
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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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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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