bell hooks
bell hooks
American author, feminist, and social activist whose real name is Gloria Jean Watkins. She wrote "Ain’t I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism".
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth25 September 1952
CityHopkinsville, KY
CountryUnited States of America
love-is practice feelings
Love is first and foremost exemplified by action - by practice - not solely by feeling.
love-is thinking self
I think this is often misunderstood in the West, where people feel that there can be no justice unless everything is the same. This is part of why I feel we have to relearn how we think about love, because we think about love so much in terms of the self.
kings silly love-you
I think this is what people misunderstand about Martin Luther King saying to love your enemies. They think he was just using this silly little phrase, but what he meant was that as Black Americans we need to let our anger go, because holding on to it we hold ourselves down. We oppress ourselves by holding on to anger.
writing love-is thinking
When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think of that work as love in action. While it may challenge, disturb and at times even frighten or enrage readers, love is always the place where I begin and end.
love giving self-love
Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.
self-esteem heart self-love
The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.
meaningful knowing love-relationship
Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
love believe giving
To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.
love self growth
When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.
love spiritual giving
Spirituality and spiritual life give us the strength to love.
self how-to-love environment
Whether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love cannot flourish in isolation.
fall love-is anchors
Knowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair.
abuse definitions definition-of-love
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.
love-is domination lacking
Whenever domination is present, love is lacking.