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 HOOKSBeing oppressed means the absence of choices.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they’re beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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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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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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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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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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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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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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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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