Bell HooksI 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 togeth… ▶371HumanityReadingThought
Bell HooksGiven 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 revolution… ▶371DeathThought
Bell HooksI think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.361Thought
Bell HooksThe rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.372Reflection
Bell HooksSince loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other. ✨ A chat with Bell Hooks, www.cnn.com… ▶373LovePhilosophyTime
Bell HooksAll too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know t… ▶351Love
Bell HooksWhy is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repu… ▶341PoliticsThoughtTime
Bell HooksWhite women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.352Thought
Bell HooksProfessors 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 no… ▶352ThoughtTime
Bell HooksThe challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community.363Humanity
Bell HooksIf I were really asked to define myself, I wouldn’t start with race; I wouldn’t start with blackness; I wouldn’t start with gender; I wouldn’t start with feminism. I would start w… ▶374HumanityLifeLove
Bell HooksFame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that in dominator culture, in a greedy culture, in a cultu… ▶374LifeLoveThought
Bell HooksI 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. ✨ '… ▶363ThoughtTime
Bell HooksAll of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are to transform educational institutions-and society-so that the way we live, teach, an… ▶364HumanityLoveReflection
Bell HooksOur hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love. ✨ Fools for love by Bell Hooks, www.theguardian.com… ▶364LifeLoveTime
Bell HooksI 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… ▶375LifeLoveSadness
Bell HooksBut love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun. ✨ A chat with the Author of 'All About Love: Ne… ▶365Love
Bell HooksTime and time again when I talk to individuals about approaching love with will and intentionality, I hear the fear expressed that this will bring an end to romance. This is simpl… ▶332LoveTime
Bell HooksPrivilege 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,… ▶376Politics
Bell HooksOne of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness – in communities, in institutions, … ▶365Politics
Bell HooksIt is necessary to remember, as we think critically about domination, that we all have the capacity to act in ways that oppress, dominate, wound (whether or not that power is inst… ▶354HopePoliticsThought
Bell HooksSome people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that… ▶311DeathHumanityReading
Bell HooksSometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist. ✨ … ▶355HumanityLovePolitics
Bell HooksBeloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how … ▶311Love
Bell HooksLiving simply makes loving simple.377Life
Bell HooksImagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition. ✨ bell hooks (2018). All About Love: New Visions, p.4, HarperCollins322Love
Bell HooksPatriarchy has no gender. ✨ bell hooks (2013). Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom, p.142, Routledge333PhilosophyThought
Bell HooksWhat had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy. ✨ bell hooks… ▶378Humanity
Bell HooksI feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.323LifeReflection
Bell HooksFeminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. ✨ Feminism Is for Everybody. Book by Bell Hooks, 2000.345Reading
