#All About Love

[sodomyaspraxis]

“As a culture we are obsessed with the notion of safety. Yet we do not question why we live in states of extreme anxiety and dread. Fear is the primary force upholding structures of domination. It promotes the desire for separation, the desire not to be known. When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat. When we choose to love we choose to move against fear—against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect—to find ourselves in the other.”

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions (2001)

#quotes #quote #bell hooks #all about love

[mun-dane]

All About Love, bell hooks

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[galactamelanin]

#galactamelanin #bell hooks #all about love

[lets-get-lit]

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

- bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

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[typewriter-worries]

Poplar Street, Chen Chen

Angels in America, Tony Kushner

All About Love, bell hooks

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[whenweallvote]

“There can be no love without justice…” — All About Love

Happy heavenly 71st birthday to bell hooks. Thank you for always sharing your truth and wisdom with the world. 🤍

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[hangsawoman]

get them for me bell hooks

#this is always on my mind #bell hooks #all about love

[girlonthelasttrain]

The wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by a patriarchal world that did not want him to claim his true feelings. The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others. When men and women punish each other for truth telling we reinforce the notion that lies are better. To be loving we willingly hear each other’s truth and, most important, we affirm the value of truth telling. Lies may make people feel better, but they do not help them to know love.

— bell hooks, “All About Love: New Visions”

#rereading this book for reasons #posting this specific quote also for reasons. #bell hooks #all about love #reading journal

[houseofpurplestars]

"When the practice of love invites us to enter a place of potential bliss that is at the same time a place of critical awakening and pain, many of us turn our backs on love."

- bell hooks, "all about love"

#bell hooks #all about love #solidarity #quotes

[bypatia]

book recs no one asked for: always coming home by ursula k le guin, why we swim by bonnie tsui, a thousand splendid suns by khaled hosseini, if you want feminist soul-changing, hopepunk, touches the veil of life reads, and educated by tara westover, all about love by bell hooks, the year of magical thinking by joan didion if you want real, visceral takes on love, grief, and being the master of your own fate, bye

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[smokefalls]

Most of the time, we think that love means just accepting the other person as they are. Who among us has not learned the hard way that we cannot change someone, mold them and make them into the ideal beloved we might want them to be. Yet when we commit to true love, we are committed to being changed, to being acted upon by the beloved in a way that enables us to be more fully self-actualized. This commitment to change is chosen. It happens by mutual agreement. Again and again in conversations the most common vision of true love I have heard shared was one that declared it to be ‘unconditional.’ True love is unconditional, but to truly flourish it requires an ongoing commitment to constructive struggle and change.

bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

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[onichangiri]

Bringing back this legend ...

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[mun-dane]

#on love #literature #poetry #all about love #bell hooks

[the-shooting-star]

Yet whenever a single woman over forty brings up the topic of love, again and again the assumption, rooted in sexist thinking, is that she is “desperate” for a man. No one thinks she is simply passionately intellectually interested in the subject matter. No one thinks she is rigorously engaged in a philosophical undertaking wherein she is endeavoring to understand the metaphysical meaning of love in everyday life. No, she is just seen as on the road to “fatal attraction.”

Bell Hooks, All About Love

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[occulthood]

bell hooks on angels

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[birdiethepoet]

since many women believe they will never know fulfilling love, they are willing to settle for strategies that help ease the pain [of lovelessness].

— bell hooks, all about love: new visions

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