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.
BELL HOOKSA major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I’m committed to loving you, then it’s not possible for me to fall out of love.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
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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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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they’re beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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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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When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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