Bell Hooks Quotes - Page 13

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• ...move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective as well as individual change.

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  Life Changing, Moving, Creating

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.194, Routledge

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• Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love.

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  Sex, Couple, Lifelong

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• Justice is possible without equality, I believe, because of compassion and understanding. If I have compassion, then if I have more than you, which is unequal, I will still do the just thing by you.

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  Believe, Compassion, Justice

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think of that work as love in action. While it may challenge, disturb and at times even frighten or enrage readers, love is always the place where I begin and end.

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  Writing, Love Is, Thinking

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.

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  Opposites, Abuse, Foundation

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• Remember, care is a dimension of love, but simply giving care does not mean we are loving.

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  Mean, Giving, Doe

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

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• Right now, for many Americans, class is being foregrounded like never before because of the economic situation. It doesn't mean that race doesn't matter, or gender doesn't matter, but it means that right now in many people's lives, in the lives of my own family members, people are losing jobs, insurance.

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  Jobs, Mean, Race

  Source: nefac.net

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• I was teasing my brother that he was penniless, homeless, jobless. Right now in his life, racism isn't the central highlighting force: it's the world of work and economics. It doesn't mean that he isn't influenced by racism, but when he wakes up in the morning the thing that's driving his world is really issues of class, economics and power as they articulate themselves.

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  Morning, Brother, Mean

  Source: nefac.net

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• Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become the place where revolutionary feminist thought and feminist activism are submerged or made secondary to the goals of academic careerism

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  Goal, Feminist, Way

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.63, Routledge

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• Sadly, anarchy has gotten such a bad name. We don't really see much evidence of it because people associate it with reckless abandon.

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  Names, People, Anarchy

  Source: nefac.net

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• Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.

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  Gone, Anarchist, Grain

  Source: nefac.net

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• I think we have to talk about educating the people for critical consciousness about what anarchy is.

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  Thinking, People, Anarchy

  Source: nefac.net

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• I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.

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  White, Black, Students

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• I think it's crazy for us to think that people don't understand what's being foregrounded in their lives at a given point in time.

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  Crazy, Thinking, People

  Source: nefac.net

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• We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.

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  Beautiful, Thinking, Space

  "Bell Hooks talks to John Perry Barlow". www.lionsroar.com. September 1, 1995.

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• Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same.

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  Believe, Writing, Insanity

  bell hooks (2013). “remembered rapture: the writer at work”, p.8, Macmillan

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• Language is also a place of struggle.

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  Struggle, Language

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.40, Routledge

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• Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.

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  Mean, Giving, Important

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• When the feminist movement was at its zenith in the late 60's and early 70's, there was a lot of moving away from the idea of the person. It was: let's talk about the ideas behind the work, and the people matter less. It was kind of a gimmicky thing, but lots of feminist women were doing it. Many of us took the names of our female ancestors - bell hooks is my maternal great grandmother - to honor them and debunk the notion that we were these unique, exceptional women. We wanted to say, actually, we were the products of the women who'd gone before us.

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  Moving, Grandmother, Unique

  Source: nefac.net

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• I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.

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  Children, Needs, Able

  "'There’s No Place to Go But Up' — bell hooks and Maya Angelou in conversation". Interview with Maya Angelou, www.lionsroar.com. January 1, 1998.

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Expression, Giving

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• Even the wealthiest professional woman can be "brought down" by being in a relationship where she longs to be loved and is consistently lied to. To the degree that she trusts her male companion, lying and other forms of betrayal will most likely shatter her self-confidence and self-esteem.

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  Betrayal, Self Esteem, Lying

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• Let's face it, war in its essence is another form of capitalism.

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  War, Essence, Faces

  Source: nefac.net

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• Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them.

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  War, People, Rich

  Source: nefac.net

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• Only love can heal the wounds of the past. However, the intensity of our woundedness often leads to a closing of the heart, making it impossible for us to give or receive the love that is
  given to us.

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  Heart, Past, Giving

  bell hooks (2018). “All About Love: New Visions”, p.26, HarperCollins

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