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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

— bell hooks life

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 love

I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and just smile at everyone who walked by. Like, 'Please take me with you!'

— bell hooks smile

An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.

— bell hooks time

Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits.

— bell hooks people

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

— bell hooks time

All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.

— bell hooks art

No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.

— bell hooks women

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

— bell hooks freedom

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

— bell hooks love

Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.

— bell hooks knowledge

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

— bell hooks life

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 love

My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.

— bell hooks life

Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.

— bell hooks hope

Live simply so that others may simply live.

— bell hooks live

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

— bell hooks art

We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.

— bell hooks beautiful

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 past

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 love

You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.

— bell hooks change

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

— bell hooks society

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 love

A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I'm committed to loving you, then it's not possible for me to 'fall out of love.'

— bell hooks love

I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.

— bell hooks people

There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether its the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

— Bell Hooks life

Its in the act of having to do things that you dont want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

— bell hooks past

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