On this #valentinesday2020, on this day when so many people are celebrating love, I want to encourage folks to pick up ALL ABOUT LOVE by bell hooks. It revolutionized my conception of love, allowed me to recognize that love is not selfish, love is not something we feel. 1/
Love is not something we say each day. Love is something we do each day. #LoveIsAVerb. Love challenges. Love tells us what we need to hear not what we want to hear. 2/
Love encourages us to become the best version of ourselves. Love is essentially constructive. We choose to love ourselves. We choose to love another. We choose to love our relatives and friends. We choose to love our people. We choose to love humanity. 3/
It is hard to love in a world that teaches us to hate ourselves, to hate one another; that teaches us to desire feeling good over doing good; that teaches us that if a someone is not being loving then there is something wrong with us rather than something wrong with them. 4/
Hate is essentially destructive. Hate is easy. Transactional relations are easy. Love is hard. But love is life. If we are not constructing ourselves and one another, then we are dying. Let us love. #loveisaverb❤️
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