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.
BELL HOOKSGiving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
BELL HOOKSThere will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
BELL HOOKSLife-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
BELL HOOKSTo know love we have to invest time and commitment.
BELL HOOKSWhen 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.
BELL HOOKSThe function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
BELL HOOKSAll our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
BELL HOOKSThe practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
BELL HOOKSKnowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
BELL HOOKSI think the Women’s movement has had a major impact on everybody’s lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
BELL HOOKSJustice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe – not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.
BELL HOOKSClass is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
BELL HOOKSWhat we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
BELL HOOKSFeminism is for everybody.
BELL HOOKSLove is an action, never simply a feeling.
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