Quote by Bell Hooks
I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are t

I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness. – Bell Hooks

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When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us. – Bell Hooks

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I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world thats becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism. – Bell Hooks

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Death is with you all the time you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but its not unfamiliar to you. Its always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life. – Bell Hooks

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As for style, there is something about the way musicians dress-they seem to be able to create their own world within their fashion alone. – Nicole Richie

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying. – Doris Lessing

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Were all in this alone. – Lily Tomlin

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Its necessary to start most work alone. But Im tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether its borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate. – Jenny Holzer

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