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

Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other. — Bell Hooks

All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters. — Bell Hooks

Whether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love cannot flourish in isolation. — Bell Hooks

The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination. — Bell Hooks

Being loving does not mean we will not be betrayed. Love helps up face betrayal without losing heart. And it renews our spirit so we can love again. — Bell Hooks

The mutual practice of giving and receiving is an everyday ritual when we know true love. — Bell Hooks

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

If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions. — Bell Hooks

We fail at romantic love when we have not learned the art of loving. It's as simple as that. Often we confuse perfect passion with perfect love. — Bell Hooks

Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue. — Bell Hooks

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust. — Bell Hooks

Shame makes self-acceptance and self-love impossible. — Bell Hooks

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

To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it's a decision, it's a judgement, it's a promise. — Bell Hooks

A love ethic presupposes that everyone has the right to be free, to live fully and well. — Bell Hooks

This book tells us how to return to love. — Bell Hooks

Love is an action, never simply a feeling. — Bell Hooks

While the will to love is present in very young children, they still need guidance in the ways of love. — Bell Hooks

Our cultural obsession with death consumes energy that could be given to the art of loving. — Bell Hooks

I learned then that it is more fulfilling to live one's life within a circle of love, interacting with loved ones to whole we are committed. — Bell Hooks

Love is profoundly political. Our deepest revolution will come when we understand this truth. — Bell Hooks

In truth, true love is all about work. — Bell Hooks

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

We use the word love in such a sloppy way that it can mean almost nothing or absolutely everything. — Bell Hooks

Valuing ourselves rightly means we understand love to be the only foundation of being that will sustain us in both times of lack and times of plenty — Bell Hooks

To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds. — Bell Hooks

Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love.
— Bell Hooks

To bring a love ethic to every dimension of our lives, our society would need to embrace change. — Bell Hooks

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem. — Bell Hooks

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic. — Bell Hooks

Knowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair. — Bell Hooks

Without justice there can be no love. — Bell Hooks

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love. — Bell Hooks

Erotic attention often serves as the catalyst for an intimate connection between two people, but it is not a sign of love. — Bell Hooks

The search for love continued even in the face of great odds. — Bell Hooks

Whenever domination is present, love is lacking. — Bell Hooks

Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition. — Bell Hooks

The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action. — Bell Hooks

If men were socialized to desire love as much as they are taught to desire sex, we would see a cultural revolution. — Bell Hooks

Love allows us to confront these negative realities in a manner that is life-affirming and life enhancing. — Bell Hooks

The choice to love is a choice to connect
to find ourselves in the other. — Bell Hooks

Redeemed and restored, love returns us to the promise of everlasting life. When we love we can let our hearts speak. — Bell Hooks

Living simply makes loving simple. — Bell Hooks

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

When we are loving, we openly and honestly express care, affection, responsibility, respect, commitment, and trust. — Bell Hooks

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

Love and abuse cannot co-exist. — Bell Hooks

But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun. — Bell Hooks

My belief that God is love, that love is everything
our true destiny
sustains me. — Bell Hooks

Indeed, all the great movements for social justice in our society have strongly emphasized a love ethic. — Bell Hooks

Spirituality and spiritual life gives us the strength to love. — Bell Hooks

If we were constantly remembering that love is as love does, we would not use the word in a manner that devalues and degrades it's meaning. — Bell Hooks

The people I love, I'm committed to loving for the rest of my life. — Bell Hooks

I think the truth is that finding ourselves brings more excitement and well-being than anything romance has to offer, and somewhere we know that. — 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

There can be no love without justice. — Bell Hooks

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. — Bell Hooks

To maintain and satisfy greed, one must support domination. And the world of domination is always a world without love. — Bell Hooks

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. — Bell Hooks

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

I love my family, even as I critique their dysfunctionalities. — Bell Hooks

When we love children, we acknowledge by our every action that they are not property, that they have rights - that we respect and uphold their rights. — Bell Hooks

All awakening to love is spiritual awakening — Bell Hooks

Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune. — Bell Hooks

When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth. — Bell Hooks

Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart. — Bell Hooks

Addiction makes love impossible. — 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

Living by a love ethic we learn to value loyalty and a commitment to sustained bonds over material advancement. — Bell Hooks

True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. — Bell Hooks

You must have courage to love, you have to have a profound will to do what is right to love, and it does not come easy. — Bell Hooks

Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life. — Bell Hooks

Discipline and devotion are necessary to the practice of love, all the more so when relationships are just beginning. — Bell Hooks

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