Bell Hooks Quotes - Page 9

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• If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.

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  Littles, Chance, Language

  Bell Hooks (1989). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.78, South End Press

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• There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

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  Ideas, Long, Feminist

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.113, Routledge

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• Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.

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  Thinking, Hands, Suffering

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• I mostly want to remind her of the recipes of healing, and give her my own made-on-the spot remedy for the easing of her pain. I tell her, “Get a pen. Stop crying so you can write this down and start working on it tonight.” My remedy is long. But the last item on the list says: “When you wake up and find yourself living someplace where there is nobody you love and trust, no community, it is time to leave town – to pack up and go (you can even go tonight). And where you need to go is any place where there are arms that can hold you, that will not let you go.

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  Pain, Writing, Healing

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• The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.

  Bell Hooks

  Self, Female, Searching For Love

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• Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind.

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  Struggle, People, Mind

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• Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical dualism, many of us have accepted the notion that there is a split between the body and the mind. Believing this, individuals enter the classroom to teach as though only the mind is present, and not the body.

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  Believe, Philosophical, Erotic

  Bell Hooks (2014). “Teaching To Transgress”, p.199, Routledge

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• Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white folks have prejudicial feelings about blacks (they could have such feelings and leave us alone) but because it is a system that promotes domination and subjugation?

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  White, Racism, Feelings

  bell hooks (2014). “Black Looks: Race and Representation”, p.15, Routledge

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• Women have endeavored to guide men to love because patriarchal thinking has sanctioned this work even as it has undermined it by teaching men to refuse guidance...A useful gift all love's practitioners can give is the offering of forgiveness. It not only allows us to move away from blame, from seeing others as the cause of our sustained lovelessness, but it enables us to experience agency, to know we can be responsible for giving and finding love.

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  Love, Moving, Teaching

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• Whether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love cannot flourish in isolation.

  Bell Hooks

  Self, How To Love, Isolation

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• Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot be taken or are not allowed.

  Bell Hooks

  Real, Distance, Taken

  bell hooks (2014). “Black Looks: Race and Representation”, p.170, Routledge

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• We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.

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  Struggle, Suffering, Valleys

  bell hooks (2008). “Belonging: A Culture of Place”, p.25, Routledge

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• Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.

  Bell Hooks

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

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

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• feminism is for everybody

  Bell Hooks

  Motivational, Feminism

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

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• Feminism as a theoretical enterprise is approached differently by Black women depending on where we are. There are more reformist Black women who tend to use the phrase "Black feminism".

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  Black, Feminism, Phrases

  Interview with Pierce Freelon, blackademics.org. October, 2006.

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• Like many white liberals, Ken sees the whiteness of his social life as more an accident of circumstance than a choice. He would welcome greater diversity in the neighbourhood. However, he does not consciously do enough work either in his social life or in the larger community to make that diversity possible.

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  White, Diversity, Choices

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope”, p.55, Routledge

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• When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism as prejudice or domination (especially domination that involves coercive control), they cannot recognize the ways their actions support and affirm the very structure of racist domination and oppression that they wish to see eradicated.

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  White, Racism, Support

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.125, Routledge

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• It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect.

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  Romantic Love, Expression, Want

  Bell Hooks, Cornel West (1991). “Breaking bread: insurgent Black intellectual life”, South End Pr

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• It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

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  Fun, Women, Moving

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

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• It's interesting--the way in which one has to balance life--because you have to know when to let go and when to pull back.... There's always some liminal (as opposed to subliminal) space in between which is harder to inhabit because it never feels as safe as moving from one extreme to another.

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  Life, Letting Go, Moving

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• It is no accident that this homeplace, as fragile and as transitional as it may be, a makeshift shed, a small bit of earth where one rests, is always subject to violation and destruction. For when a people no longer have the space to construct homeplace, we cannot build a meaningful community of resistance.

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  Meaningful, Women, Home

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.61, Routledge

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• My grief was a heavy, despairing sadness caused by parting from a companion of many years but, more important, it was a despair rooted in the fear that love did not exist, could not be
  found. And even if it were lurking somewhere, I might never know it in my lifetime. It had become hard for me to continue to believe in love's promise when everywhere I turned the
  enchantment of power of the terror of fear overshadowed the will to love.

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  Believe, Grief, Sadness

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• To me, a woman can't be a feminist just because she is a woman. She is a feminist because she begins to divest herself of sexist ways of thinking and revolutionizes her consciousness.

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  Thinking, Feminist, Way

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

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• Patriarchy has no gender.

  Bell Hooks

  Gender, Patriarchy

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom”, p.142, Routledge

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• We don't really live in a culture that loves boys or loves children, and we don't encourage boys to be whole.

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  Children, Boys, Culture

  Source: nefac.net

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