“...it is the most militant, most radical intervention anyone can make to not only speak of love, but to engage in the… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Time and time again when I talk to individuals about approaching love with will and intentionality, I hear the fear expressed that… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Affection is only one ingredient of love. To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients -- care, affection, recognition, respect,… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Only love can heal the wounds of the past. However, the intensity of our woundedness often leads to a closing of the… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Right now, for many Americans, class is being foregrounded like never before because of the economic situation. It doesn't mean that race doesn't matter,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Most folks believe we are hardwired biologically to long for sex but they do not believe we are hardwired to long for love. Almost… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
... we need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“I feel enormously blessed to be a successful black woman writer in this culture, but I have found my small fame, such as it… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
In this culture, the phrase 'black woman' is not synonymous with 'tender,' or 'gentle.' It's as if those words couldn't possibly speak to the… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
It's interesting to look at all the aspects where everyday Americans, many of whom are not college educated, are thinking deeply now about our… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The true teacher is within us. A good teacher is someone who can help you to go back and touch the true teacher within,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Advancing the notion that there can be many "feminisms" has served the conservative and liberal political interests of women seeking status and privileged class… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
