If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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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The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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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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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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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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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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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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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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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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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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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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Living simply makes loving simple.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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