Bell Hooks Quotes - Page 15

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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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• 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 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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• 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

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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

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

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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

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

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  War, Essence, Faces

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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

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

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  Thinking, Impact, Postmodernism

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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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• 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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