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 HOOKSI 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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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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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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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Justice 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.
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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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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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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
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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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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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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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