Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
BELL HOOKSAs long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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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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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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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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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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