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• Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No one has ever explained why accurately naming this system is funny. The laughter is itself a weapon of patriarchal terrorism.

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  Laughter, White, Laughing

  bell hooks (2004). “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• War in its essence is another form of capitalism. Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them. 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, Essence, People

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

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• The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be with someone else in a manner that is not about your desire to possess them, but to be with them, to be in union and communion.

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  Moving, Reading, Love Is

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• When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.

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  Happiness, Success, Perseverance

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

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• Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.

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  Meaningful, Knowing, Love Relationship

  A chat with Bell Hooks, www.cnn.com. February 17, 2000.

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• Living simply makes loving simple.

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  Simple, Simplicity

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• No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.

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  Men, White, America

  bell hooks (2014). “Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism”, p.7, Routledge

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• The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously is living with a core of healthy self-esteem. You will face reality, you will not delude yourself.

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  Self Esteem, Reality, Healthy

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

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• When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.

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  Love, Self, Growth

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• When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.

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  Lying, Men, Telling The Truth

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• The soul of our politics is the commitment to ending domination.

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  Commitment, Soul, Domination

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.103, Routledge

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• Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.

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  Race, Talking, Class

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• Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that would be even more alienated and violent if caring women did not do the work of teaching men who have lost touch with themselves how to love again. This labor of love is futile only when the men in question refuse to awaken, refuse growth. At this point it is a gesture of self-love for women to break their commitment and move on.

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  Moving, Teaching, Commitment

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• The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

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  Hurt, Pain, Loss

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• A good teacher is someone who can help you to get back to a teacher within.

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  Teacher, Helping, Good Teacher

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• Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all that is good remains wedded to the very logic of Western metaphysical dualism that is the heart of racist binary thinking. Such thinking is not liberatory. Like the racist educational ideology it mirrors and imitates, it invites a closing of the mind.

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  Educational, Heart, Thinking

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• Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels.

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  Struggle, Feminism, Western Culture

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.26, Routledge

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• I am passionate about everything in my life--first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that's a dangerous person to be in this society, not just because I'm a woman, but because it's such a fundamentally anti-intellectual, anti-critical thinking society. --bell hooks

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  Thinking, Ideas, Intellectual

  Bell Hooks (1996). “Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies”, p.110, Psychology Press

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• Privilege is not in and of itself bad; what matters is what we do with privilege. I want to live in a world where all women have access to education, and all women can earn PhD’s, if they so desire. Privilege does not have to be negative, but we have to share our resources and take direction about how to use our privilege in ways that empower those who lack it.

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  What Matters, Empowering, Desire

  bell hooks, Amalia Mesa-Bains (2017). “Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism”, p.74, Routledge

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• Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Its aim is not to benefit solely any specific group of women, any particular race or class of women. It does not privilege women over men. It has the power to transform meaningfully all our lives

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  Struggle, Men, Race

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.45, Routledge

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• Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication.

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  Communication, Choices, Next Steps

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• Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy—“to stand outside”—comes to me in those moments when I am immersed so deeply in the act of thinking and writing that everything else, even flesh, falls away.

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  Fall, Passion, Writing

  bell hooks (2013). “remembered rapture: the writer at work”, p.35, Macmillan

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• The world demands that you work for it, make families, provide, take no time to listen to your own heart beating.

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  Heart, World, Demand

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• Whenever domination is present, love is lacking.

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  Love Is, Domination, Lacking

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.81, Routledge

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• To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.

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  Meaningful, Tasks, Meaningful Relationship

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