773 Quotes by Bell Hooks

Black progressives suffered major disillusionment with white progressives when our experiences of working with them revealed that they could want to be with us (even to be our sexual partners) without divesting of white supremacist thinking about blackness. We saw that they were often unable to let go the idea that whites are somehow better, smarter, more likely to be intellectuals, and even that they were kinder than black folks.

Most American women, particularly white women, have not decolonized their thinking either in relation to the racism, sexism, and class elitism they hold towards less powerful groups of women in this society or the masses of women globally.

Being loving does not mean we will not be betrayed. Love helps up face betrayal without losing heart. And it renews our spirit so we can love again.

To be loving is to be open to grief, to be touched by sorrow, even sorrow that is unending.

Embracing love ethic means that we utilize all dimensions of love-- "care, commitment, trust, responsibility, respect and knowledge"-- in our everyday lives.

Love empowers us to live fully and die well. Death becomes, then, not an end to life but a part of living.

All awakening to love is spiritual awakening

The choice to love is a choice to connect--- to find ourselves in the other.

A love ethic presupposes that everyone has the right to be free, to live fully and well.