To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
BELL HOOKSTo love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
BELL HOOKSThere is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
BELL HOOKSThe rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
BELL HOOKSWhat we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
BELL HOOKSForgiveness 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?
BELL HOOKSAs long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
BELL HOOKSLove 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.
BELL HOOKSNo black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”. No woman has ever written enough.
BELL HOOKSIt’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.
BELL HOOKSTo know love we have to invest time and commitment.
BELL HOOKSLove is an action, never simply a feeling.
BELL HOOKSWhat we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
BELL HOOKSThe function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
BELL HOOKSDeath 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.
BELL HOOKSWhenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
BELL HOOKSKnowing 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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