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Bell Hooks Quotes - Page 11

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

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

Struggle, People, Mind

Readers forget that one can critique yet still admire.

Forget, Admire, Reader

One of the things I find most exciting is talking with people who are working with my work. Who are using it in some way with their life to address everyday politics of meaning.

Talking, People, Everyday

"The BK Nation INTERVIEW with bell hooks". Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. February 28, 2014.

Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in educational settings.

Educational, Reality, Class

Bell Hooks (2014). “Teaching To Transgress”, p.185, Routledge

Often their rage erupts because they believe that all ways of looking that highlight difference subvert the liberal belief in a universal subjectivity (we are all just people) that they think will make racism disappear. They have a deep emotional investment in the myth of sameness even as their actions reflect the primacy of whiteness as a sign informing who they are and how they think.

Believe, Emotional, Thinking

bell hooks (2014). “Black Looks: Race and Representation”, p.167, Routledge

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.

Love, Moving, Teaching

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

Self, How To Love, Isolation

It is crucial for the future of the Black liberation struggle that we remain ever mindful that ours is a shared struggle, that we are each other's fate.

Struggle, Fate, Black

bell hooks, Cornel West (2016). “Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life”, p.41, Routledge

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?

Men, Color, Males

bell hooks (2012). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.239, Routledge

Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black identity be defined in relation to the stereotype whether by embodying it or seeking to be other than it…Negative stereotypes about the nature of black masculinity continue to overdetermine the identities black males are allowed to fashion for themselves.

Fashion, White, Black

Bell Hooks (2004). “We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity”, p.12, Psychology Press

I believe that this nation can only heal from the wounds of racism if we all begin to love blackness. And by that I don't mean that we love only that which is best within us, but that we're also able to love that which is faltering, which is wounded, which is contradictory, incomplete.

Believe, Mean, Racism

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.

White, Diversity, Choices

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

As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing.

Voice, White, Racism

"Killing Rage: Ending Racism". Book by Bell Hooks, September 15, 1995.

White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.

Men, White, Black

Part of the heart of anarchy is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking about our realities. Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.

Heart, Reality, Thinking

"How Do You Practice Intersectionalism? An Interview with bell hooks". Interview with Randy Lowens, nefac.net. March 15, 2012.

I see myself, in terms of the question of capitalism, as I would support democratic socialism over a capitalist system, because any approach... or participatory economics, which is another great model that people like Michael Albert are putting out there... any system that encourages us to think about interdependency, and to be able to use the world's resources in a wiser way, for the good of the whole, would be better for the world than capitalism.

Thinking, Democratic Socialism, People

Source: nefac.net

If we move away from either/or thinking, and if we think, okay, every day of my life that I walk out of my house I am a combination of race, gender, class, sexual preference and religion or what have you, what gets foregrounded?

Moving, Thinking, Race

Source: nefac.net

Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt with tremendous ease that which merely appears radical or subversive

White, Feminist, Ease

bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.63, Routledge

We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.

White, Feminist, Agendas

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

All my life I have longed to have a loving relationship that would last a lifetime.

Lasts, Lifetime, Loving Relationships

Facebook post, www.facebook.com. April 8, 2016.

Hip-Hop is diverse. But the white, capitalist producers and distributors of Hip-Hop are most interested in the Hip-Hip that is misogynist, that is Black-hating, that is pugilistic, that is to say all about fighting and war and killing and gangsterism.

Hate, War, Fighting

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

If you're in a domestic situation where the man is violent, patriarchy and male domination - even though you understand it intersectionally - you focus, you highlight that dimension of it, if that's what is needed to change the situation.

Men, Focus, Males

"How Do You Practice Intersectionalism? An Interview with bell hooks". Interview with Randy Lowens, nefac.net. March 15, 2012.

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.

Gay, Men, Thinking

We all may have prejudices, but we're not all part of a system that reinforces, reinvents and reaffirms itself every day of our lives, systemically.

Prejudice, May, Our Lives

Source: nefac.net

Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune.

Men, Men And Women, Loveless

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