Bell Hooks Quotes About Liberation

Quotes about: Liberation

• It is necessary to remember, as we think critically about domination, that we all have the capacity to act in ways that oppress, dominate, wound (whether or not that power is institutionalized). It is necessary to remember that it is first the potential oppressor within that we must resist – the potential victim within that we must rescue – otherwise we cannot hope for an end to domination, for liberation.

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  Thinking, Way, Firsts

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.33, Routledge

• It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.

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  White, People, Focus

  "Ain't I a Woman?". Book by Gloria Jean Watkins, 1981.

• The struggle to end sexist oppression that focuses on destroying the cultural basis for such domination strengthens other liberation struggles. Individuals who fight for the eradication of sexism without struggles to end racism or classism undermine their own efforts. Individuals who fight for the eradication of racism or classism while supporting sexist oppression are helping to maintain the cultural basis of all forms of group oppression.

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  Struggle, Fighting, Racism

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.57, Routledge

• It is crucial for the future of the Black liberation struggle that we remain ever mindful that ours is a shared struggle, that we are each other's fate.

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  Struggle, Fate, Black

  bell hooks, Cornel West (2016). “Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life”, p.41, Routledge

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