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• A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers - the experience of knowing we always belong.

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  Heart, Knowing, Needs

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• 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 manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility.

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  Responsibility, Thinking, Accountability

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• 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 save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling.

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  Dream, Real, Commitment

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• The intellectual tradition of the West is very individualistic. It's not community-based. The intellectual is often thought of as a person who is alone and cut off from the world. So I have had to practice being willing to leave the space of my study to be in community, to work in community, and to be changed by community.

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  Cutting, Practice, Space

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

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• I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

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  Happiness, Success, Perseverance

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• Whenever domination is present, love is lacking.

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  Love Is, Domination, Lacking

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.81, Routledge

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• Only grown-ups think that the things children say come out of nowhere. We know they come from the deepest parts of ourselves.

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  Children, Thinking, Knows

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• Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.

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  Love, Giving, Self Love

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• Being oppressed means the absence of choices

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  Mean, Choices, Absence

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.22, Routledge

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• Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.

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  Sexism, Powerless

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.95, Routledge

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• It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.

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  Country, Thinking, Self

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• In 2014, when Hillary Clinton was not yet running for president, I stated that I was not in agreement with her politics. More recently, when asked my thoughts about Hillary Clinton during a public conversation with Gloria Steinem, I stated, "she embodies the very best of imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't vote for her."

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  Running, Mean, Agreement

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• All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.

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  Believe, Commitment, Expression

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• We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.

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  Media, White, Culture

  bell hooks, Amalia Mesa-Bains (2017). “Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism”, p.66, Routledge

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• When we are more energized by the practice of blaming than we are by efforts to create transformation, we not only cannot find relief from suffering, we are creating the conditions that help keep us stuck in the status quo

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  Practice, Creating, Effort

  Bell Hooks (2013). “Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice”, p.29, Routledge

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• Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth.

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  Lying, People, Would Be

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• The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.

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  Self Esteem, Heart, Self Love

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• Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy—“to stand outside”—comes to me in those moments when I am immersed so deeply in the act of thinking and writing that everything else, even flesh, falls away.

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  Fall, Passion, Writing

  bell hooks (2013). “remembered rapture: the writer at work”, p.35, Macmillan

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• One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.

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  Library, United States, Institutions

  bell hooks (2003). “Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Privilege is not in and of itself bad; what matters is what we do with privilege. I want to live in a world where all women have access to education, and all women can earn PhD’s, if they so desire. Privilege does not have to be negative, but we have to share our resources and take direction about how to use our privilege in ways that empower those who lack it.

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  What Matters, Empowering, Desire

  bell hooks, Amalia Mesa-Bains (2017). “Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism”, p.74, Routledge

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• The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously is living with a core of healthy self-esteem. You will face reality, you will not delude yourself.

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  Self Esteem, Reality, Healthy

  "The BK Nation INTERVIEW with bell hooks". Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. February 28, 2014.

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• Without justice there can be no love.

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  Justice, No Love

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• How different things might be if, rather than saying "I think I'm in love," we were saying "I've connected with someone in a way that makes me think I'm on the way to knowing love." Or if instead of saying "I am in love" we say "I am loving" or "I will love." Our patterns around romantic love are unlikely to change if we do not change our language.

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  Romantic Love, Thinking, Knowing Love

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• Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.

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  Race, Talking, Class

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• No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.

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  Women, Writing, Black

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