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Feelings Quotes by Bell Hooks
- 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…
- To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this…
- Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white folks have prejudicial feelings about blacks (they…
- The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny…
- There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is…
- Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will…
- Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
- …“white supremacy” is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not…
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- No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of… — Saint Augustine
- The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. — Teresa of Avila
- A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about… — Irving Babbitt
- When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have… — Lauren Bacall
- When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give… — Lauren Bacall
- The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings. — Erykah Badu
- I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's… — Erykah Badu
- I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I… — Amy Adams
- Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself. — Andre Balazs