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Bell Hooks quotes

American Critic September 25, 1952

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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 Bell Hooks
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. 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
To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination. Bell Hooks
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. Bell Hooks
What 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
Bell Hooks quote: "The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s..."
The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible. Bell Hooks
Bell Hooks quote: "I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously."
I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously. Bell Hooks
Bell Hooks quote: "All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of..."
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity. Bell Hooks
Bell Hooks quote: "The political core of any movement for freedom in the society..."
The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech. Bell Hooks
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. Bell Hooks
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. Bell Hooks
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. Bell Hooks
Why 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 repudiate patriarchy? 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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