Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
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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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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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 function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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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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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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Forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
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Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power – not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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.
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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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.
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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 do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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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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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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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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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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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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If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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.
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When 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.
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