No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough ― bell hooks

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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling. ― bell hooks

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Being oppressed means the absence of choices ― bell hooks

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Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond the glittering stars.

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Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust. ― bell hooks,

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Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.

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Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional. ― Desmond Tutu

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Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

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All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way. ― Bell Hooks

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