Quotes from bell hooks

I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place.

Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.

Love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.

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 hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.

Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love

Love is first and foremost exemplified by action - by practice - not solely by feeling.

Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger.

Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in which male domination of women and children stands in the ways of love.

Remember, care is a dimension of love, but simply giving care does not mean we are loving.

If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.

Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.

The greater our commitment, the more likely our love will last.

Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse.

What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force.

It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect.

I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong.

You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.

A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I'm committed to loving you, then it's not possible for me to 'fall out of love.'

When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat

Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.

When anyone thinks a woman who serves "gives 'cause that's what mothers or real women do, " they deny her full humanity and thus fail to see the generosity inherent in her acts.

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.