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 HOOKSGenuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
-
-
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
BELL HOOKS -
Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
BELL HOOKS -
I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
BELL HOOKS -
Patriarchy has no gender.
BELL HOOKS -
Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
BELL HOOKS -
There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
BELL HOOKS -
I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
BELL HOOKS -
The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
BELL HOOKS -
There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
BELL HOOKS -
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.
BELL HOOKS -
Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
BELL HOOKS -
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.
BELL HOOKS -
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.
BELL HOOKS -
Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
BELL HOOKS -
If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
BELL HOOKS