Bell Hooks Quotes - Page 11

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• Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

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  Moving, Passing Away, Moments

  "Bell Hooks and John Perry Barlow talk “prana in cyberspace”". Interview with John Perry Barlow, www.lionsroar.com. 1995.

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• I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

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  Art, Grace, Belief

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• A distinction must be made between that writing which enables us to hold on to life even as we are clinging to old hurts and wounds and that writing which offers to us a space where we are able to confront reality in such a way that we live more fully. Such writing is not an anchor that we mistakenly cling to so as not to drown. It is writing that truly rescues, that enables us to reach the shore, to recover.

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  Hurt, Writing, Reality

  bell hooks (2013). “remembered rapture: the writer at work”, p.11, Henry Holt and Company

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• Knowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair.

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  Fall, Love Is, Knowing Love

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• Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.

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  Loneliness, Despair, Causes

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• Like desire, language disrupts, refuses to be contained within boundaries.

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  Sex, Desire, Language

  Bell Hooks (2014). “Teaching To Transgress”, p.175, Routledge

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• Yearning is the word that best describes a common psychological state shared by many of us, cutting across boundaries of race, class, gender, and sexual practice.

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  Cutting, Race, Practice

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.44, Routledge

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• To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.

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  Psychics, Maintenance, Denial

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• I think part of Western metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other.

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  Thinking, Metaphysical, Western

  Source: nefac.net

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• The greater our commitment, the more likely our love will last.

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  Commitment, Our Love, Lasts

  Facebook post, www.facebook.com. April 8, 2016.

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• Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse.

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  Abuse, Definitions, Definition Of Love

  bell hooks (2018). “All About Love: New Visions”, p.8, HarperCollins

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• Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity, border crossing, subjectivity constructed out of plurality, the vast majority of folks in this society still believe in a notion of identity that is rooted in a sense of essential traits and characteristics that are fixed and static.

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  Believe, Vision, Criticism

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• I think we have to choose, what are the issues that really matter? We have to trust that.

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  Thinking, Issues, Matter

  Source: nefac.net

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• Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune.

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  Men, Men And Women, Loveless

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• Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against.

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  Black, World, Black Women

  "Communion: The Female Search for Love". Book by Bell Hooks, January 22, 2002.

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• It is poetry that changes everything.

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• 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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• To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.

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  Love, Believe, Giving

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• We are rarely able to interact only with folks like ourselves, who think as we do. No matter how much some of us deny this reality and long for the safety and familiarity of sameness, inclusive ways of knowing and living offer us the only true way to emancipate ourselves from the divisions that limit our minds and imaginations.

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  Reality, Thinking, Knowing

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• There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

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  Children, Addiction, Abuse

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• None of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of being immodest, and acting courageously to bring issues of class- especially radical standpoints – into the discourse of blackness is a gesture of militant defiance, one that runs counter to bourgeois insistence that we think of “money” in particular and class in general as private matters.

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  Running, Thinking, Class

  bell hooks (2012). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.179, Routledge

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• Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger.

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  People, Abuse, Might

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.97, Routledge

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• I'm lucky. I think it's good that I have a body of work that addresses different things in different ways.

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  Thinking, Addresses, Way

  Source: nefac.net

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• This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men feel the loss. Ultimately, one of the emotional costs of allegiance to patriarchy is to be seen as unworthy of trust. If women and girls in patriarchal culture are taught to see every male, including the males with whom we are intimate, as potential rapists and murderers, then we cannot offer them our trust, and without trust there is no love.

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  Girl, Loss, Men

  bell hooks (2004). “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love”

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• In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with thoughts and feelings - where we can experience healthy psychological autonomy and can choose to share when we want to. Keeping secrets is usually about power, about hiding and concealing information.

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  Confused, Keeping Secrets, Space

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