Bell Hooks Quotes About Hurt

Quotes about: Hurt

• The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

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  Hurt, Pain, Loss

• A distinction must be made between that writing which enables us to hold on to life even as we are clinging to old hurts and wounds and that writing which offers to us a space where we are able to confront reality in such a way that we live more fully. Such writing is not an anchor that we mistakenly cling to so as not to drown. It is writing that truly rescues, that enables us to reach the shore, to recover.

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  Hurt, Writing, Reality

  bell hooks (2013). “remembered rapture: the writer at work”, p.11, Henry Holt and Company

• A very hurting thing for Black Americans - to feel that we can't love our enemies. People forget what a great tradition we have as African-Americans in the practice of forgiveness and compassion. And if we neglect that tradition, we suffer.

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  Hurt, Compassion, Practice

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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