All Bell Hooks Quotes
- Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart. Betrayed
- Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to… Abuse
- Even the wealthiest professional woman can be "brought down" by being in a relationship where she longs to be loved and is consistently lied to.… Betrayal
- While privacy strengthens all our bonds, secrecy weakens and damages connection. Lerner points out that we do not usually "know the emotional costs of keeping… All
- Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth. Accepted
- All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In… Abuse
- The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control. Acted
- A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment.… Abandonment
- When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to… Alienation
- Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only. Children
- These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism. Actually Supports
- You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change. Change
- In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we… Aggression
- If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them. Able
- Any society based on domination supports and condones violence. Any
- All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the… All
- The working-class black Southern Christian culture I come from still nurtures me, and I mean directly, daily. Black
- Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal. America
- All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem. All
- Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge. Class