"The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be with someone else in a manner that is not about your desire to possess them, but to be with them, to be in union and communion."

-- Bell Hooks

#Moving Quotes #Love Is Quotes #Desire Quotes

“A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.”
“Experiences come and go; however, my love for myself is constant.”
“I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together. And I want to make this whole new sound that's going to shock the world. Unfortunately, the masses didn't receive it.”
“I undid the wrappings with great curiosity, for Holmes did not normally give gifts. I opened the dark velvet jewller's box and found inside a shiny new set of picklocks, a younger version of his own. "Holmes, ever the romantic. Mrs. Hudson would be pleased.”

Source : Laurie R. King (2010). “The Beekeeper's Apprentice”, p.151, Allison & Busby
“Hanks is a good man, and he produced the "John Adams" series as well. He does good work. But I'm more worried about a Tom Hanks when we're at war against radical Islam than I am against a caricature like Sean Penn. He's a completely marginalized soul.”
“The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.”
“Are not the gays who seek the right to marry, to formalise their commitment to each other, holding up a mirror to heterosexuals who are marrying less frequently and divorcing more often?”
“People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue, a society can be ruled only by fear, a truth that tyrants understand all too well”

You may also like:

Angela Davis
Political Activist
Audre Lorde
Writer
Cornel West
Philosopher
Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
Scholar
Gloria Steinem
Journalist
Lorraine Hansberry
Playwright
Patricia Hill Collins
Professor
Paulo Freire
Educator
Toni Morrison
Novelist