Bell Hooks Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part what the book club opens up is that people can read a book and then have someone else to talk about it with. Then they see that a book can lead to the pleasure of conversation, that the solitary act of reading can actually be a part of the path to communion and community.

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  Book, Reading, People

• While it has become “cool” for white folks to hang out with black people and express pleasure in black culture, most white people do not feel that this pleasure should be linked to unlearning racism.

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  White, Racism, People

  bell hooks (2014). “Black Looks: Race and Representation”, p.17, Routledge

• I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.

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  Sleep, Seductive, Trying

  "bell hooks talks to John Perry Barlow". Interview with John Perry Barlow, www.lionsroar.com. September 1, 1995.

• To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone. Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what I should be. School was the place where I could forget that self and, through ideas, reinvent myself.

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  Home, School, Self

• I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure and joy.

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  Struggle, Teaching, Giving

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