All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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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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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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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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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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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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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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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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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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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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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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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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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