Bell Hooks Quotes - Page 14

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• It's interesting to look at all the aspects where everyday Americans, many of whom are not college educated, are thinking deeply now about our economic structure.

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  College, Thinking, Interesting

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• When I think about the auto-industry and how it was one of the industries that brought all of these black men from the South to Michigan and other places to make more money than they could ever make in the cotton fields or the agricultural world of the South... what's happening now is all of that is closing down, and we know that it's going to reopen in Southern places, focusing on Mexican and other migrant workers to come and work cheaply and get none of the benefits.

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  Men, Thinking, Southern

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• Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.

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  Media, Black, Would Be

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• To the extent that we live in a postmodern world and it shapes the concrete circumstances of our daily lives, I would say postmodernism affects my work or influences my work.

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  World, Shapes, Influence

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• My work is mostly influenced by the concrete circumstances of our daily lives.

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  Daily Life, Circumstances, Concrete

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• If anything I think postmodernism has the least impact on my work.

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  Thinking, Impact, Postmodernism

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• I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong.

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  Writing, Names, People

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• Is it more important that you, as a white male, read my work and learn from it, or what you call me? I think it's more important that you read my work, reflect on it, and allow it to transform your life and your thinking in some way.

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  Thinking, White, Important

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• Contrary to what some folks would have us believe, it is not tragic, even if undesirable, for a person to leave a liberal arts education not having read major works from this canon. Their lives are not ending. And the exciting dimension of knowledge is that we can learn a work without formally studying it. If a student graduates without reading Shakespeare and then reads or studies this work later, it does not delegitimize whatever formal course of study that was completed.

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  Art, Believe, Reading

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• I think we are obsessed in the U.S. with the personal, in ways that blind us to more important issues of life. I just think if we could take all the obsession with the personal (inaudible), and personal judgment and have people be concerned about the environment, what a different world we would live in.

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  Thinking, Issues, People

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• You have to trust that if you are calling my name in a way that is offensive to me, I'm going to share it with you. But you also have to know what your feelings are behind calling me "bell."

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  Names, Feelings, Calling

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• Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.

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  Thinking, Justice, Feminist

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.71, Routledge

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• Even when people capitalize my name, I don't freak out, even though that would not be my choice.

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  Names, People, Choices

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• I don't have issues around how I'm identified.

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  Issues

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• We know that so much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group.

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  War, Groups, Resources

  Source: nefac.net

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• Clearly, commitment is a necessary component for creating loving relationships.

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  Commitment, Creating, Loving Relationships

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

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• 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.

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  Writing, Thinking, Focus

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

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• I can be critical of Beyoncé and yet also appreciate aspects of her power and representation. I can especially critique the way white supremacist aesthetics more often than not informs her presentation of self and yet still acknowledge her beauty.

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  Self, White, Appreciate

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• I think this is what people misunderstand about Martin Luther King saying to love your enemies. They think he was just using this silly little phrase, but what he meant was that as Black Americans we need to let our anger go, because holding on to it we hold ourselves down. We oppress ourselves by holding on to anger.

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  Kings, Silly, Love You

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

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• I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

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  Book, Issues, Racism

  "A chat with the Author of "All About Love: New Visions"". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. February 17, 2000.

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• One difference with the political writings, whether about feminism or class, is that the intent is to change how people think of a certain political reality; whereas with cultural criticism, the goal is to illuminate something that is already there.

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  Writing, Thinking, Reality

  "How Do You Practice Intersectionalism? An Interview with bell hooks". Interview with Randy Lowens, nefac.net. March 15, 2012.

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• Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting and attended similar schools as "not black enough." ...Our concept of black experience has been too narrow and constricting.

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  Teaching, School, White

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.51, Routledge

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• I feel that I have many real students whom I have not met. Many are in cloisters and they never get out. Others are in prison. But in many cases they practice the teachings much better than those who meet me every day.

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  Real, Teaching, Practice

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• What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force.

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  Believe, Men, Ignorant

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• Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.

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  Art, Book, Writing

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