The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our โnaturalโ condition.
Bell HooksCommitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.
Bell HooksTo live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.
Bell HooksAll too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing and the like..I think we need to be wary: we need to work against the danger of evoking something that we donโt challenge ourselves to actually practice.
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