Bell Hooks Quotes
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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 to move toward…
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Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.
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Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with…
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The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to…
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Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot…
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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 to transform educational…
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I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the…
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People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.
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Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to process all our issues, to…
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I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining, come to understand…
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The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be with someone else…
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Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical dualism, many of…
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I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet…
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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 important resource.
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Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love.
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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 a world that…
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In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with…
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Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.
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The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.
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Whenever domination is present, love is lacking.
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