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Bell Hooks quotes about book

American Critic September 25, 1952

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Bell Hooks quote: "I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United..."
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love. Bell Hooks
Some 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 are accessible to the widest audience possible. Bell Hooks
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... Bell Hooks
For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part what the book club opens up is that people can read a book and then have someone else to talk about it with. Then they see that a book can lead to the pleasure of conversation, that the solitary act of reading can actually be a part of the path to communion and community. Bell Hooks
Bell Hooks quote: "I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social..."
I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism. Bell Hooks
Bell Hooks quote: "Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books."
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books. Bell Hooks

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