Bone Black Quotes

“There is much to celebrate about being old. I want to be old as soon as possible for I see the way the old ones live - free. They are free to be different - unique - distinct from one another. None of them are alike. Some of them were already on their way to being old when I was born. I do not know them young. I do not have to forgive them past mistakes. They have not caused me any sorrow. My grandfather tells me that all he ever wanted was for the world to leave him be, that it won't let you when you are a young man.”
― bell hooks, Bone Black

“when you say "I would die for you" to those you love, the truth of those words may be not that you give your physical life but that you are willing to die to the past and be born again in the present where you can live fully and freely - where you can give us the love we need.”
― bell hooks, Bone Black

“He tells her that it is not that he does not want her to be a girlfriend but that he can see that she is not interested. She tells him that she cannot be interested when it seems that she is only a way for him to announce his own rebellion.”
― bell hooks, Bone Black

“With him all the broken pieces of my heart get mended, put back together again bit by bit. He can always tell when I am sad. He will ask me What have they been doing to you now. He knows that I am a wounded animal, that they pour salt on the open sores just to hear me moan. He tells me that in the end it will come out all right. He tells me Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted...I need his presence in my life to learn that all men are not terrible, are not to be feared.”
― bell hooks, Bone Black

“Clothes do not interest her. They hang on her body as if they are there only because there is no place else for them to go, like men on street corners, like children on the school playground on weekends.”
― bell hooks, Bone Black