The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
BELL HOOKSSince loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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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.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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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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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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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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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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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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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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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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Feminism is for everybody.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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