Quote by Bell Hooks: “The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression.”

Choosing love — real, principled love, not just romantic feeling — is itself a political act. To genuinely care for others, especially across lines of difference, is to resist systems that thrive on division, dehumanisation, and hierarchy. Love, in this sense, is not passive — it is resistance.

Hooks wrote this in Teaching to Transgress, published in 1994. The book explored love as a transformative practice in education and politics, appearing at a moment when debates about multiculturalism, identity politics, and the role of emotion in intellectual life were intensifying in American universities.

American author, feminist theorist, and cultural critic who wrote more than thirty books on the intersections of race, gender, and capitalism. Her 1984 book Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center and her later All About Love reshaped how millions of readers understood love and liberation.