#all about love by bell hooks

[jamietukpahwriting]

Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.

—All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks

[sodomyaspraxis]

“As a culture we are obsessed with the notion of safety. Yet we do not question why we live in states of extreme anxiety and dread. Fear is the primary force upholding structures of domination. It promotes the desire for separation, the desire not to be known. When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat. When we choose to love we choose to move against fear—against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect—to find ourselves in the other.”

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions (2001)

[mun-dane]

All About Love, bell hooks

[galactamelanin]

[houseofpurplestars]

"When the practice of love invites us to enter a place of potential bliss that is at the same time a place of critical awakening and pain, many of us turn our backs on love."

- bell hooks, "all about love"

[lets-get-lit]

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

- bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

[lovitachi]

grief is proof we once loved

ruki (the gazette) / all about love - bell hooks / jamie anderson / andrew garfield

inspired by this post • originally posted on twitter/x

[bypatia]

book recs no one asked for: always coming home by ursula k le guin, why we swim by bonnie tsui, a thousand splendid suns by khaled hosseini, if you want feminist soul-changing, hopepunk, touches the veil of life reads, and educated by tara westover, all about love by bell hooks, the year of magical thinking by joan didion if you want real, visceral takes on love, grief, and being the master of your own fate, bye

[jamietukpahwriting]

Living in a culture that is always encouraging us to plan for the future, it is no easy task to develop the capacity “to be here now.”

—All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks

[thediaryofarevolutionist]

- Simone de Beauvoir „the second sex“

She is literally describing me

[whenweallvote]

“There can be no love without justice…” — All About Love

Happy heavenly 71st birthday to bell hooks. Thank you for always sharing your truth and wisdom with the world. 🤍

[mun-dane]

[hangsawoman]

get them for me bell hooks

[girlonthelasttrain]

The wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by a patriarchal world that did not want him to claim his true feelings. The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others. When men and women punish each other for truth telling we reinforce the notion that lies are better. To be loving we willingly hear each other’s truth and, most important, we affirm the value of truth telling. Lies may make people feel better, but they do not help them to know love.

— bell hooks, “All About Love: New Visions”

[antigonick]

None of us are getting better at loving: we are getting more scared of it. We were not given good skills to begin with, and the choices we make have tended only to reinforce our sense that it is hopeless and useless.

Elizabeth Wurtzel, in “Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women”, as quoted by bell hooks in All About Love: New Visions

[birdiethepoet]

since many women believe they will never know fulfilling love, they are willing to settle for strategies that help ease the pain [of lovelessness].

— bell hooks, all about love: new visions