#om

I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#apex #back #bar #bartender #boom

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery. ↗

— Richard Hooker

#cause #live #man #misery #to live by

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

#always #believe #capacity #compassion #enough

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

#down #else #i #ignorance #life

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#away #becomes #been #death #deeper

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

— Bell Hooks

#core #free #free speech #freedom #imperative

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

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. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#girl #i #interested #like #living

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

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

#america #black #existence #focus #group