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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

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 think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#black #health #i #i think #number

I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#had #i #i think #impact #lives

I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#black #blacks #disturbed #i #identify