Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
BELL HOOKSI began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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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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Living simply makes loving simple.
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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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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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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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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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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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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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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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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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