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Love Quotes by Bell Hooks

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Bell Hooks argues that love is a practiced ethic that requires courage, honesty, and a mix of care, respect, and trust. She points out that lasting love can exist without sex and that loyalty matters more than material gain. Her words also stress the need for open communication and a willingness to face fear.

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The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...

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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.

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Without justice there can be no love.

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Spirituality and spiritual life give us the strength to love.

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I love my family, even as I critique their dysfunctionalities.

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Whenever domination is present, love is lacking.

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Living simply makes loving simple.

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“There can be no love without justice.”

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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…

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But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb,…

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Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.

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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

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Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.

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Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.

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The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.

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Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.

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“To demystify the meaning of love, the art and practice of loving, we need to use sound definitions of love when talking…

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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…

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“Concurrently, when it comes to matters of the heart we are encouraged to treat partners as though they were objects we can…

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I don't think you can hate anything that you know intimately. There is no fine line separating love from hate because there's…

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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…

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The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin…

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“The widespread assumption that ethical behavior takes the fun out of life is false. In actuality, living ethically ensures that relationships in…

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In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and…

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“Romantic love as most people understand it in patriarchal culture makes one unaware, renders one powerless and out of control. Feminist thinkers…

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Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in…

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When women and men understand that working to eradicate patriarchal domination is a struggle rooted in the longing to make a world…

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Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that…

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In an ideal world we would all learn in childhood to love ourselves. We would grow, being secure in our worth and…

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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming…

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All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are…

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“Only a revolution of values...will end male violence, and that revolution will necessarily be based on a love ethic. To create loving…

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“Most men and women born in the fifties or earlier were socialized to believe that marriages and/or committed romantic bonds of any…

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“It still took years for me to let go of learned pattern's of behavior that negated my capacity to give and receive…

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“The growing number of gated communities in our nation is but one example of the obsession with safety. With guards at the…

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“To create loving men, we must love males. Loving maleness is different from praising and rewarding males for living up to sexist-defined…

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“Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they choose to be intimate with are frozen in…

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“One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving…

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“Let's not kid ourselves, we find mutual love only when we know how to love. And the best place to start practicing…

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“Often men who have been emotionally neglected and abused as children by dominating mothers bond with assertive women, only to have their…

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... we need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously.

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“Advancing the notion that there can be many "feminisms" has served the conservative and liberal political interests of women seeking status and privileged class…

I love my family, even as I critique their dysfunctionalities.

You must have courage to love, you have to have a profound will to do what is right to love, and it does not…

To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients - care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open…

“Often emphasis on identity and lifestyle is appealing because it creates a false sense that one is engaged in praxis. However, praxis within any…