"If we want a beloved community, we must…" — Bell Hooks

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251 Quotes by Bell Hooks

Bell Hooks has 251 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love,…
Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.
Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we…
The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength…
Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would…
All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if…
I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of…
People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.
Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to…
I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via…
The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself…
Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of…

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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as… — John Adams
Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin… — Daniel J. Boorstin
My wife and I are living large in our beloved Miami and I'm working on the things that are important… — Jeb Bush
I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed,… — Jimmy Carter
Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age. — Maya Angelou
You have two gardens: your own garden and that of your beloved. First, you have to take care of your… — Nhat Hanh
I love myself for I am a beloved child of the universe and the universe lovingly takes care of me… — Louise Hay
Why is it important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's… — Henri Nouwen

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