More quotes by bell hooks

"The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic."
"Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope."
"The message received from the mass media is that knowledge makes love less compelling; that it is ignorance that gives love its erotic and transgressive edge."
"Knowing 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."
"Living simply makes loving simple."