Bell Hooks Quotes About Critical Thinking

Quotes about: Critical Thinking

• I am passionate about everything in my life--first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that's a dangerous person to be in this society, not just because I'm a woman, but because it's such a fundamentally anti-intellectual, anti-critical thinking society. --bell hooks

  Bell Hooks

  Thinking, Ideas, Intellectual

  Bell Hooks (1996). “Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies”, p.110, Psychology Press

• My focus has always been on the work - that work being critical thinking and writing. I am always doing that. That's where I am, wherever I am. Critical thinking and writing as my heartbeat.

  Bell Hooks

  Writing, Thinking, Focus

  "The BK Nation INTERVIEW with bell hooks". Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. February 28, 2014.

• It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.

  Bell Hooks

  Country, Thinking, Self

• One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness – in communities, in institutions, among friends.

  Bell Hooks

  Differences, Support, Community

• I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining, come to understand that when black people come together to celebrate and rejoice in black critical thinking, we do so not to exclude or to separate, but to participate more fully in world community. However, we must first be able to dialogue with one another, to give one another subject-to-subject recognition that is an act of resistance that is part of the decolonizing, anti-racist process.

  Bell Hooks

  Thinking, Expression, Giving

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