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Bell Hooks Quotes
«I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place.»
Author: Bell Hooks
«I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure and joy.»
Author: Bell Hooks
«I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.»
Author: Bell Hooks
«For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part what the book club opens up is that people can read a book and then have someone else to talk about it with. Then they see that a book can lead to the pleasure of conversation, that the solitary act of reading can actually be a part of the path to communion and community.»
Author: Bell Hooks
«. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression.»
Author: Bell Hooks
«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.»
Author: Bell Hooks
«Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.»
Author: Bell Hooks
«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.»
Author: Bell Hooks
«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.»
Author: Bell Hooks