Bell Hooks

I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#black #each #get #help #i

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. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#back #feel #hedonistic #i #i feel

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

#each #know #knowing #love #loving

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#buddhism #enlightenment #experience #first-hand #important

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#belief #elegance #environment #feel #grace

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

#feel #interactive #just #love #love is

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#books #come #ideas #me #through

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#act #ego #having #learn #moving

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#becoming #been #being #fear #fundamentalism

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#draw #drop #earth #fear #heavenly