Bell Hooks

When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise. They tell us paradise is our home and love our true destiny. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#love #spirituality #life

The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#love #self-love #women-s-strength #love

Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#experience

Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#racism

Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in which male domination of women and children stands in the ways of love. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#love

As more people of color raise our consciousness and refuse to be pitted against one another, the forces of neo-colonial white supremacist domination must work harder to divide and conquer. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#racism

Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#love

..Critically intervene in a way that challenges and changes. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#change

Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact with a wider world. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#change

..think about the contradictions and complexities that beset people. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#reflections #movies