Bell Hooks Quotes

If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon!

I can love people of every gender identity and expression. It is the soul that captivates me.

It makes no difference to my family where one comes from as long as we make each other happy. They are pretty cool like that.

Eurovision is this bubble of inclusivity and respect, and it's so beautiful, if only the whole world would be in this bubble. It is a family that will never forget about you.

I'm a believer in love - it's all good as far as I'm concerned. Every size, age - whatever.

Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.

Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern because of race or gender, faith or ethnicity - or because of their sexual orientation.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss.

I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.

I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.

I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that just love who you wish and celebrate it the best you can.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

I think if we open ourselves to all different kinds of men and all groups, we find a lot more opportunities to love.

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.

We do not judge the people we love.

I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.

In my heart, I really don't care who you love, same sex or not; as long as you have the ability to love, that's the important thing here.

With all of the divisiveness that is going on in the country we live in, so much of it is based around just fear of the other. And anyone who does not look like me, walk like me, talk like me, have sex like me, they're the other and I'm afraid of them. And hopefully we will learn that it's just not scary. There's nothing to be afraid of.

My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.

I want to make people feel good about who they are regardless of who they are or where they come from or the color of their skin or what their family acts like or what they look like. I am all about acceptance of others and of yourself.

To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

I do a lot of gay-friendly stuff in my show, and men, women, they all love it. I practice non-judgment in my daily life and hope other people do the same thing.

I am a very firm believer in the Aloha spirit - respect and love for everyone, irrespective of their religion, race, sex, gender identity, or sexual orientation.