When I began to think deeply about the metaphysics of love I talked with everyone around me about it. I talked to large audiences and even had wee one-on-one conversations with children about the way they think about love. I talked about love in every state, everywhere I traveled.
Bell HooksSince loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
Bell HooksIt is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.
Bell HooksKnowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
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