Happy New Year 2022 + iconic words from bell hooks
“I am passionate about everything in my life–first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that’s a dangerous person to be in this society, not just because I’m a woman, but because it’s such a fundamentally anti-intellectual, anti-critical thinking society.”
bell hooks
“The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.”
bell hooks
“Love is an action, never simply a feeling.”
bell hooks
“Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives.”
bell hooks
“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”
bell hooks
“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.”
bell hooks
“We can’t combat white supremacy unless we can teach people to love justice. You have to love justice more than your allegiance to race, sexuality, and gender. It is about justice.”
bell hooks
“It is silly, isn’t it, that I would dream of someone else offering to me the acceptance and affirmation I was withholding from myself. This was a moment when the maxim ‘You can never love anybody if you are unable to love yourself’ made clear sense. And I add, ‘Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.’”
bell hooks
“Love empowers us to live fully and die well. Death becomes, then, not an end to life but a part of living.”
bell hooks
“Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.”
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