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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.

Love is an action, never simply a feeling.

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Love Is, Feelings, Action

There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is too heavy. And sometimes the mountain top is difficult to reach with all our resources, factual and confessional, so we are just there, collectively grasping, feeling the limitations of knowledge, longing together, yearning for a way to reach that highest point. Even this yearning is a way to know.

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Feelings, Let It Go, Together

To indoctrinate boys into the rules of patriarchy, we force them to feel pain and to deny their feelings.

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Pain, Boys, Feelings
bell hooks (2004). “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white folks have prejudicial feelings about blacks (they could have such feelings and leave us alone) but because it is a system that promotes domination and subjugation?

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White, Racism, Feelings
bell hooks (2014). “Black Looks: Race and Representation”, p.15, Routledge

Love is first and foremost exemplified by action - by practice - not solely by feeling.

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Love Is, Practice, Feelings
"Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

You have to trust that if you are calling my name in a way that is offensive to me, I'm going to share it with you. But you also have to know what your feelings are behind calling me "bell."

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Names, Feelings, Calling
Source: nefac.net

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