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 HOOKSLove 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.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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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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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.
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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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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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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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No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”. No woman has ever written enough.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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A 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.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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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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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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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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