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Bell Hooks quotes about thinking

American Critic September 25, 1952

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None of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of being immodest, and acting courageously to bring issues of class- especially radical standpoints – into the discourse of blackness is a gesture of militant defiance, one that runs counter to bourgeois insistence that we think of “money” in particular and class in general as private matters. Bell Hooks
Bell Hooks quote: "I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people..."
I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health. Bell Hooks
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
Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy—“to stand outside”—comes to me in those moments when I am immersed so deeply in the act of thinking and writing that everything else, even flesh, falls away. Bell Hooks
I still think it's important for people to have a sharp, ongoing critique of marriage in patriarchal society? because once you marry within a society that remains patriarchal, no matter how alternative you want to be within your unit, there is still a culture outside you that will impose many, many values on you whether you want them to or not. Bell Hooks
I 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 together to celebrate and rejoice in black critical thinking, we do so not to exclude or to separate, but to participate more fully in world community. However, we must first be able to dialogue with one another, to give one another subject-to-subject recognition that is an act of resistance that is part of the... Bell Hooks
It 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 institutionalized). It is necessary to remember that it is first the potential oppressor within that we must resist? the potential victim within that we must rescue? otherwise we cannot hope for an end to domination, for liberation. Bell Hooks
All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing and the like..I think we need to be wary: we need to work against the danger of evoking something that we don’t challenge ourselves to actually practice. Bell Hooks
Bell Hooks quote: "I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on..."
I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole. Bell Hooks
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
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
Most gay men are as sexist in their thinking as are heterosexuals. Their patriarchal thinking leads them to construct paradigms of desirable sexual behaviour that is similar to that of patriarchal straight men. Bell Hooks
Bell Hooks quote: "think about the contradictions and complexities that beset..."
..think about the contradictions and complexities that beset people. Bell Hooks
Bell Hooks quote: "I think I was always obsessed with esthetics."
I think I was always obsessed with esthetics. Bell Hooks

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