Bell Hooks Quotes - Page 14

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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

  Source: nefac.net

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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

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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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• 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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• Today masses of black women in the U.S. refuse to acknowledge that they have much to gain by feminist struggle. They fear feminism. They have stood in place so long that they are afraid to move. They fear change. They fear losing what little they have.

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  Struggle, Moving, Long

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• Sexism has always been a political stance mediating social domination, enabling white men and black men to share a common sensibility about sex roles and the importance of male domination.

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  Sex, Men, White Man

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• Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact with a wider world.

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  Mean, Community, Black

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• None of us, irrespective of our sexual preference and/or practice, imagine that we can have an intimate relationship with a partner and always have seamless harmony. Indeed, most of us assume that once the “honeymoon” period is over differences will emerge and conflicts will happen. Positively, we also assume that we will be “safe“ in those moments; that even if voices are raised and emotions expressed are intense, there will not be and should not be any abuse or any reason to be unsafe, and that the will to connect and communicate will prevail.

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  Voice, Differences, Intimate Relationships

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom”, p.75, Routledge

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• Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.

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  Heart, Lifetime, Graves

  "Fools for love" by Bell Hooks, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2000.

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• When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise. They tell us paradise is our home and love our true destiny.

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  Home, Angel, Destiny

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• What's so amazing about this historical moment is that it is bringing class to the fore and we have to think about the nature of work and hierarchy.

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  Thinking, Class, Historical

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

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• I have been contemplating the place and meaning of love in our lives and culture for years. When a subject attracts my intellectual and emotional imagination, I am long to observe it from all angles, to know it inside and out.

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  Emotional, Years, Imagination

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

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