My students tell me, we don't want to love! We're tired of being loving! And I say to … - Bell Hooks

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The Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general laws.

Bell Hooks

My students tell me, we don't want to love! We're tired of being loving! And I say to them, if you're tired of being loving, then you haven't really been loving, because when you are loving you have more strength.

Love, Loving You, Strength, Tired, Want

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I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that is redemptive, full of hope and possibility. Not this “In order to love you, I must make you something else”. That’s what domination is all about, that in order to be close to you, I must possess you, remake and recast you.

Anothers, Close, Differences, Domination, Love, Order

The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom.

Begin, Choose, Love, Moments, Move, Moving

It is important and vital is to keep that education for critical consciousness around intersectionalities, so that people are able to not focus on one thing and blame one group, but be able to look holistically at the way intersectionality informs all of us: whiteness, gender, sexual preferences, etc. Only then can we have a realistic handle on the political and cultural world we live within.

Focus, Handle, People, Political, Thing

Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.

Aims, Feminist, Inspiring, Justice, Live Life, Lives

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.

Alone, Central, Life, Love, Loving, Meaningful

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