If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
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.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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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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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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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
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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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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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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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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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