{"author":"bell hooks","author_id":"bell+hooks","total_quotes":209,"quotes":[{"text":"When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape.","author":"bell hooks","tags":["loneliness"],"id":198,"author_id":"bell+hooks"},{"text":"Spiritual seekers let their light shine so that others may see; not only to give service by example, but also to constantly remind themselves that spirituality is most gloriously embodied in our actions, our habits of being.","author":"bell hooks","tags":["inspirational","spiritual-wisdom"],"id":1474,"author_id":"bell+hooks"},{"text":"To critique sexist images without offering alternatives is an incomplete intervention. Critique in and of itself does not lead to change.","author":"bell hooks","tags":["inspirational","thank-you","true","yes"],"id":4154,"author_id":"bell+hooks"},{"text":"A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers - the experience of knowing we always belong.","author":"bell hooks","tags":["abandonment","belonging","fear","generousity","gift","heart","love","true-love"],"id":4630,"author_id":"bell+hooks"},{"text":"I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.","author":"bell hooks","tags":["relationships"],"id":7968,"author_id":"bell+hooks"},{"text":"Sexual promiscuity and sexual liberation were not one and the same.","author":"bell hooks","tags":["feminism"],"id":9720,"author_id":"bell+hooks"},{"text":"An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time they also create it. ","author":"bell hooks","tags":["time","culture","mirror "],"id":13386,"author_id":"bell+hooks"},{"text":"Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity, border crossing, subjectivity constructed out of plurality, the vast majority of folks in this society still believe in a notion of identity that is rooted in a sense of essential traits and characteristics that are fixed and static.","author":"bell hooks","tags":["identity"],"id":13478,"author_id":"bell+hooks"},{"text":"Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.","author":"bell hooks","tags":["change","people","you "],"id":15111,"author_id":"bell+hooks"},{"text":"…move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective as well as individual change.","author":"bell hooks","tags":["change"],"id":17795,"author_id":"bell+hooks"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":209,"pages":21,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}