"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."
–– bell hooks, pen name of Gloria Jean Watkins (1952-2021), American writer, academic, & activist
"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."
–– bell hooks, pen name of Gloria Jean Watkins (1952-2021), American writer, academic, & activist
"What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe."
–– bell hooks, pen name of Gloria Jean Watkins (1952-2021), American writer, academic, & activist
"To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality."
–– bell hooks, pen name of Gloria Jean Watkins (1952-2021), American writer, academic, & activist
via Sketchbook 26, 2022, p. 134