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

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Source : Bell Hooks (1994). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.298, Routledge

Bell Hooks

#Moving Quotes #Moments Quotes

“To be meek and humble means to have a service attitude towards God, the Vaisnavas, and all living beings. Unless we have that, our chanting will have minimal effect and many births may pass before we finally come to the conclusion.”
“New York City is a living organism; It evolves, it devolves, it fluctuates as a living organism. So my relationship with New York City is as vitriolic as the relationship with myself and with any other human being which means that it changes every millisecond, that it's in constant fluctuation.”

Source : "The Cruise". Documentary, 1998.
“With a curious zeal to better understand our own existence, we often go far out of our way to find out who we are and where we have come from. Why? We need to know, not just for the present, but from our earliest beginnings to the present.”
“She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.”
“Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world.”
“The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature.”
“I hate the word 'hippy'. I hate a lot of people, and hippies don't do that!”
“I'm a doofus from the Valley, a blue-collar guy.”

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