Knowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair.
Bell HooksWhether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love cannot flourish in isolation.
Bell HooksWhen I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think of that work as love in action. While it may challenge, disturb and at times even frighten or enrage readers, love is always the place where I begin and end.
Bell HooksPart of the heart of anarchy is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking about our realities. Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.
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