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Bell Hooks Quotes about Commitment

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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

Commitment, Responsibility, Love Is

bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom”, p.133, Routledge

Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling.

Dream, Real, Commitment

All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.

Believe, Commitment, Expression

The soul of our politics is the commitment to ending domination.

Commitment, Soul, Domination

bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.103, Routledge

Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.

Honesty, Heart, Commitment

To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients - care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication.

Communication, Commitment, Care

bell hooks (2018). “All About Love: New Visions”, p.5, HarperCollins

Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that would be even more alienated and violent if caring women did not do the work of teaching men who have lost touch with themselves how to love again. This labor of love is futile only when the men in question refuse to awaken, refuse growth. At this point it is a gesture of self-love for women to break their commitment and move on.

Moving, Teaching, Commitment

When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.

Relationship, Pain, Commitment

All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world. This individual commitment, when coupled with engagement in collective discussion, provides a space for critical feedback which strengthens our efforts to change and make ourselves anew.

Commitment, Reflection, Self

When women and men understand that working to eradicate patriarchal domination is a struggle rooted in the longing to make a world where everyone can live fully and freely, then we know our work to be a gesture of love. Let us draw upon that love to heighten our awareness, deepen our compassion, intensify our courage and strengthen our commitment.

Struggle, Commitment, Compassion

bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.39, Routledge

The greater our commitment, the more likely our love will last.

Commitment, Our Love, Lasts

Facebook post, www.facebook.com. April 8, 2016.

Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. These workshops are important, yet they tend to focus primarily on cathartic individual psychological personal prejudice without stressing the need for corresponding change in political commitment and action. A woman who attends an unlearning racism workshop and learns to acknowledge that she is racist is no less a threat than one who does not. Acknowledgment of racism is significant when it leads to transformation.

Stress, Commitment, White

"Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center". Book by Bell Hooks, 1984.

Clearly, commitment is a necessary component for creating loving relationships.

Commitment, Creating, Loving Relationships

Facebook post, www.facebook.com. April 8, 2016.

Solidarity is not the same as support. To experience solidarity, we must have a community of interests, shared beliefs and goals around which to unite, to build Sisterhood. Support can be occasional. It can be given and just as easily withdrawn. Solidarity requires sustained, ongoing commitment.

Commitment, Sisterhood, Goal

bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.67, Routledge

... feminist solidarity rooted in a commitment to progressive politics must include a space for rigorous critique, for dissent, orwe are doomed to reproduce in progressive communities the very forms of domination we seek to oppose.

Commitment, Space, Feminist

bell hooks (2012). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.78, Routledge

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