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 HOOKSThere will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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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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My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
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Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
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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 we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
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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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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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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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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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Knowing 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.
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It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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