"Knowing love or the hope of knowing love……" — Bell Hooks
"Knowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair."
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251 Quotes by Bell Hooks
Bell Hooks has 251 quotes on this site.
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The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love,…
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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…
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The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength…
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Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would…
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All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if…
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I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of…
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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…
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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…
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The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself…
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Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of…
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We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away…
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Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.
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We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they're informed by the…
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For me, my family and my faith have been what's really been my anchor, and grounding me, and helping me…
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To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel…
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My mother is everything to me. She's my anchor, she's the person I go to when I need to talk…
— Demi Lovato
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Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell…
— Thomas Lovell Beddoes
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What an anchor is to a ship, hope is to the soul. Both ships and souls are kept safe by…
— June Hunt
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How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.
— Antonio Machado
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Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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A babe is a mother's anchor.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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