#out

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

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

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

#feel #interactive #just #love #love is

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. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#buddhism #enlightenment #experience #first-hand #important

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

#each #know #knowing #love #loving

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. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#all things #art #attention #create #creative

I made a living out of being a class clown. ↗

— Shannon Hoon

#class #class clown #clown #i #living

I think we really almost burnt ourselves out on one record. ↗

— Shannon Hoon

#burnt #i #i think #ourselves #out

My role is not to choose between safeguarding the economy and protecting the environment - it's about doing both. ↗

— Geoff Hoon

#between #both #choose #doing #economy