Bell Hooks Quotes About Choices

Quotes about: Choices

• When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.

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  I Love You, Moving, Love Is

• Being oppressed means the absence of choices

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  Mean, Choices, Absence

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.22, Routledge

• Like many white liberals, Ken sees the whiteness of his social life as more an accident of circumstance than a choice. He would welcome greater diversity in the neighbourhood. However, he does not consciously do enough work either in his social life or in the larger community to make that diversity possible.

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  White, Diversity, Choices

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope”, p.55, Routledge

• Even when people capitalize my name, I don't freak out, even though that would not be my choice.

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  Names, People, Choices

  Source: nefac.net

• Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication.

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  Communication, Choices, Next Steps

• Within the new self-help books for women, patriarachy and male domination are rarely identified as forces that lead to the oppression, exploitation, and domination of women. Instead, these books suggest that individual relationships between men and women can be changed solely by women making the right choices.

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  Book, Men, Self

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.45, Routledge

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