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Bell Hooks Quotes - Page 12

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My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.

My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.

Book, Passion, Ideas

...move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective as well as individual change.

Life Changing, Moving, Creating

bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.194, Routledge

Feminism as a theoretical enterprise is approached differently by Black women depending on where we are. There are more reformist Black women who tend to use the phrase "Black feminism".

Black, Feminism, Phrases

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

Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love.

Sex, Couple, Lifelong

Justice is possible without equality, I believe, because of compassion and understanding. If I have compassion, then if I have more than you, which is unequal, I will still do the just thing by you.

Believe, Compassion, Justice

"Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think of that work as love in action. While it may challenge, disturb and at times even frighten or enrage readers, love is always the place where I begin and end.

Writing, Love Is, Thinking

"Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

Book, Issues, Racism

"A chat with the Author of "All About Love: New Visions"". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. February 17, 2000.

Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.

Loneliness, Despair, Causes

What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force.

Believe, Men, Ignorant

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.

Art, Book, Writing

I don't have issues around how I'm identified.

Issues

Source: nefac.net

Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. These workshops are important, yet they tend to focus primarily on cathartic individual psychological personal prejudice without stressing the need for corresponding change in political commitment and action. A woman who attends an unlearning racism workshop and learns to acknowledge that she is racist is no less a threat than one who does not. Acknowledgment of racism is significant when it leads to transformation.

Stress, Commitment, White

"Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center". Book by Bell Hooks, 1984.

You have to trust that if you are calling my name in a way that is offensive to me, I'm going to share it with you. But you also have to know what your feelings are behind calling me "bell."

Names, Feelings, Calling

Source: nefac.net

When I began to think deeply about the metaphysics of love I talked with everyone around me about it. I talked to large audiences and even had wee one-on-one conversations with children about the way they think about love. I talked about love in every state, everywhere I traveled.

Children, Thinking, Way

"Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

I have been contemplating the place and meaning of love in our lives and culture for years. When a subject attracts my intellectual and emotional imagination, I am long to observe it from all angles, to know it inside and out.

Emotional, Years, Imagination

"Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

I gather together the dreams, fantasies, experiences that preoccupied me as a girl, that stay with me and appear and reappear in different shapes and forms in all my work. Without telling everything that happened, they document all that remains most vivid.

Girl, Dream, Together

Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact with a wider world.

Mean, Community, Black

Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.

Mean, Giving, Important

I think this is often misunderstood in the West, where people feel that there can be no justice unless everything is the same. This is part of why I feel we have to relearn how we think about love, because we think about love so much in terms of the self.

Love Is, Thinking, Self

"Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.

Self Esteem, Integrity, People

bell hooks (2003). “Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

I feel that I have many real students whom I have not met. Many are in cloisters and they never get out. Others are in prison. But in many cases they practice the teachings much better than those who meet me every day.

Real, Teaching, Practice

I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.

Thinking, Obsessed

I 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.

Children, Needs, Able

"'There’s No Place to Go But Up' — bell hooks and Maya Angelou in conversation". Interview with Maya Angelou, www.lionsroar.com. January 1, 1998.

When we concentrate on photography, we make it possible to see the walls of photographs in black homes as a critical intervention, a disruption of white control over black images.

Photography, Wall, Home

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.

Thinking, Numbers, People

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