Bell Hooks Quotes - Page 8

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• I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.

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  Mean, Thinking, Perfect

  "Bell Hooks and John Perry Barlow talk “prana in cyberspace”". Interview with John Perry Barlow, www.lionsroar.com. 1995.

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• In order for me to engage in a revolutionary struggle for collective Black self-determination, I have to engage feminism because that becomes the vehicle by which I project myself as a female into the heart of the struggle, but the heart of the struggle does not begin with feminism. It begins with an understanding of domination and with a critique of domination in all its forms.

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  Determination, Struggle, Heart

  Source: espressostalinist.com

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• I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to talk about the fact that we cannot educate for critical consciousness if we have a group of people who cannot access Fanon, Cabral, or Audre Lorde because they can’t read or write. How did Malcolm X radicalize his consciousness? He did it through books. If you deprive working-class and poor black people of access to reading and writing, you are making them that much farther removed from being a class that can engage in revolutionary resistance.

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  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in arenas where there has been little or no change.

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  Different, Littles, Arena

  "Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center". Book by Bell Hooks, 1984.

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• The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.

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  Men, Feels, Maleness

  Bell Hooks (2004). “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love”, Washington Square Pr

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• I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison.

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  Solitude, Black, Males

  "“There’s No Place to Go But Up” — Bell Hooks and Maya Angelou in conversation". Interview with Melvin McLeod, www.lionsroar.com. January 1, 1998.

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• I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.

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  Sleep, Seductive, Trying

  "bell hooks talks to John Perry Barlow". Interview with John Perry Barlow, www.lionsroar.com. September 1, 1995.

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• I think inequality is in our minds. I think this is what we learn through practice... The bridge of illusion must be shattered in order for a real bridge to be constructed. One of the things we learn is that inequality is an illusion.

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  Real, Thinking, Order

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

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• Usually, when people talk about the "strength" of black women . . . . they ignore the reality that to be strong in the face of oppression is not the same as overcoming oppression, that endurance is not to be confused with transformation.

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  Strong, Confused, Reality

  bell hooks (2014). “Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism”, p.6, Routledge

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• Even the most subjected person has moments of rage and resentment so intense that they respond, they act against. There is an inner uprising that leads to rebellion, however short- lived. It may be only momentary but it takes place. That space within oneself where resistance is possible remains.

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  Uprising, Space, May

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.29, Routledge

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• All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters.

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  Kindness, Foundation, Matter

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

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• One of the greatest difficulties the left faces in reaching out to masses of people in America is its profound disrespect of spirituality and religious life…people on the left need to acknowledge – we need to grapple with – the question of religion.

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  Religious, America, People

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• People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.

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  Self Esteem, Integrity, People

  bell hooks (2003). “Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intellectual process. We should forcefully explain that our role is not to teach them to think as we do but rather to teach them, by example, the importance of taking a stance that is rooted in rigorous engagement with the full range of ideas about a topic.

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  Education, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• Feminism as a political movement has to specifically address the needs of men in their struggle to revolutionize their consciousness.

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  Struggle, Men, Political

  "Challenging Capitalism and Patriarchy: An Interview with bell hooks". Third World Viewpoint Interview, espressostalinist.com. July 15, 2013.

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• If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.

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  Children, Self, Giving

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• To teach in a manner that respects and cares for the souls of our students is essential if we are to provide the necessary conditions where learning can most deeply and intimately begin.

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  Soul, Essentials, Care

  Bell Hooks (2014). “Teaching To Transgress”, p.14, Routledge

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• The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.

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  Paradise, Academy

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• In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable.

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  Culture, Preoccupation, Inevitable

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• Love is first and foremost exemplified by action - by practice - not solely by feeling.

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  Love Is, Practice, Feelings

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

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• there is no politically neutral art.

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  Art

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• ... the outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow notions of racial solidarity that suppress dissent and critique can lead black folks to support individuals who will not protect their rights.

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  Rights, Support, Black

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• The significance of feminist movement (when it is not co-opted by opportunistic, reactionary forces) is that it offers a new ideological meeting ground for the sexes, a space for criticism, struggle, and transformation.

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  Sex, Struggle, Space

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.52, Routledge

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• Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.

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  Challenges, Adults, Fiction

  bell hooks (2003). “Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• ... privacy is ... connected to a politics of domination.

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  Privacy, Domination, Connected

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