black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Bell Hooks

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
BELL HOOKS

Art Belief Elegance Environment Grace Live Reflection
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
BELL HOOKS

Oppression Privilege Rage
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
BELL HOOKS

Book Ideas Life Transformation
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.
BELL HOOKS

Impact Movement Nation Women Empowerment World
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?
BELL HOOKS

Account Believe Capacity Compassion Forgiveness Humanity Time Transfomation Wrong
Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
BELL HOOKS

Absence Choice Oppression
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
BELL HOOKS

Children Different Experience Life People
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.
BELL HOOKS

Death Life Moments Reality Time
Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
BELL HOOKS

Action Couple Feeling Love One Liner
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.
BELL HOOKS

Feeling Interactive Love Process
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
BELL HOOKS

Believe Ignorance Inspirational Life Women Power
Living simply makes loving simple.
BELL HOOKS

Live Love Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power – not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.
BELL HOOKS

Destroy Existence Human Nature People Power Recognize See
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.
BELL HOOKS

Creature Earth Fear Inspirational People Surround
There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
BELL HOOKS

Education Feminism Ideas Movement Understand
Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
BELL HOOKS

Genuine Gratitude Instant Love Need Rare Space

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bell Hooks Quotes