Love is first and foremost exemplified by action - by practice - not solely by feeling. — 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
Remember, care is a dimension of love, but simply giving care does not mean we are loving. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Clearly, commitment is a necessary component for creating loving relationships. — 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
All my life I have longed to have a loving relationship that would last a lifetime. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged. — 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
To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients - care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Ultimately the men who choose against violence, against death, do so because they want to live fully and well, because they want… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to process all… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Women have greater freedom than ever before, and yet it is not clear whether that freedom has given us greater access to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Those who choose to walk on love's path are well served if they have a guide. That guide can enable us to… — 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… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Many of us choose relationships of affection and care that will never become loving because they feel safer. The demands are not… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Her love of words is a private passion - one she would rather not share. In the house of her childhood though… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
schools for love do not exist. everyone assumes that we will know how to love instinctively. despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“And when we love, we know love will last. Significantly, we know, having learned through much trial and error, that true love… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
We fear that evaluating our needs and then carefully choosing partners will reveal that there is no one for us to love.… — 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
My grief was a heavy, despairing sadness caused by parting from a companion of many years but, more important, it was a… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“The growing number of gated communities in our nation is but one example of the obsession with safety. With guards at the… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“It still took years for me to let go of learned pattern's of behavior that negated my capacity to give and receive… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“To create loving men, we must love males. Loving maleness is different from praising and rewarding males for living up to sexist-defined… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Most men and women born in the fifties or earlier were socialized to believe that marriages and/or committed romantic bonds of any… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds. — 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
Love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect. — 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
“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
... we need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously. — Bell Hooks Copy Share
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
You must have courage to love, you have to have a profound will to do what is right to love, and it does not… — Bell Hooks Copy Share
To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients - care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open… — Bell Hooks Copy Share
“Often emphasis on identity and lifestyle is appealing because it creates a false sense that one is engaged in praxis. However, praxis within any… — bell hooks Copy Share
