The greatest movement for social justice our country has eve... - bell hooks

"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."

"There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism."

"Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope."

"Living simply makes loving simple."