What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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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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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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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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To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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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.
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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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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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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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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.
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Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
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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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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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