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Bell Hooks Quotes - Page 14

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Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.

Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.

Heart, Lifetime, Graves

"Fools for love" by Bell Hooks, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2000.

Feminist education — the feminist classroom — is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there is visible acknowledgment of the union of theory and practice, where we work together as teachers and students to overcome the estrangement and alienation that have become so much the norm in the contemporary university.

Teacher, Struggle, Practice

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

Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same.

Believe, Writing, Insanity

bell hooks (2013). “remembered rapture: the writer at work”, p.8, Macmillan

We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.

Beautiful, Thinking, Space

"Bell Hooks talks to John Perry Barlow". www.lionsroar.com. September 1, 1995.

One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness – in communities, in institutions, among friends.

Differences, Support, Community

What's so amazing about this historical moment is that it is bringing class to the fore and we have to think about the nature of work and hierarchy.

Thinking, Class, Historical

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

Even the wealthiest professional woman can be "brought down" by being in a relationship where she longs to be loved and is consistently lied to. To the degree that she trusts her male companion, lying and other forms of betrayal will most likely shatter her self-confidence and self-esteem.

Betrayal, Self Esteem, Lying

One difference with the political writings, whether about feminism or class, is that the intent is to change how people think of a certain political reality; whereas with cultural criticism, the goal is to illuminate something that is already there.

Writing, Thinking, Reality

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

Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.

Opposites, Abuse, Foundation

Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.

Use, Shapes, Wells

Contrary to what some folks would have us believe, it is not tragic, even if undesirable, for a person to leave a liberal arts education not having read major works from this canon. Their lives are not ending. And the exciting dimension of knowledge is that we can learn a work without formally studying it. If a student graduates without reading Shakespeare and then reads or studies this work later, it does not delegitimize whatever formal course of study that was completed.

Art, Believe, Reading

Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.

Media, Black, Would Be

Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them.

War, People, Rich

Source: nefac.net

We know that so much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group.

War, Groups, Resources

Source: nefac.net

Let's face it, war in its essence is another form of capitalism.

War, Essence, Faces

Source: nefac.net

I think we have to talk about educating the people for critical consciousness about what anarchy is.

Thinking, People, Anarchy

Source: nefac.net

Even when people capitalize my name, I don't freak out, even though that would not be my choice.

Names, People, Choices

Source: nefac.net

Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become the place where revolutionary feminist thought and feminist activism are submerged or made secondary to the goals of academic careerism

Goal, Feminist, Way

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

Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.

Gone, Anarchist, Grain

Source: nefac.net

I think we are obsessed in the U.S. with the personal, in ways that blind us to more important issues of life. I just think if we could take all the obsession with the personal (inaudible), and personal judgment and have people be concerned about the environment, what a different world we would live in.

Thinking, Issues, People

Source: nefac.net

It's interesting to look at all the aspects where everyday Americans, many of whom are not college educated, are thinking deeply now about our economic structure.

College, Thinking, Interesting

Source: nefac.net

Radical militant feminist believes that women of color and Black women in particular have written the cutting edge theory and really were the individuals who exploded feminist theory into the directions that has made it more powerful. So I see us as the leaders not just of Black people and Black women in terms of feminism but in terms of the movement as a whole.

Powerful, Believe, Cutting

"October 2006 Interview: Bell Hooks". Interview with Pierce Freelon, blackademics.org. October 2006.

When I think about the auto-industry and how it was one of the industries that brought all of these black men from the South to Michigan and other places to make more money than they could ever make in the cotton fields or the agricultural world of the South... what's happening now is all of that is closing down, and we know that it's going to reopen in Southern places, focusing on Mexican and other migrant workers to come and work cheaply and get none of the benefits.

Men, Thinking, Southern

Source: nefac.net

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

Political, Movement, Speech

bell hooks (2012). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.75, Routledge

To the extent that we live in a postmodern world and it shapes the concrete circumstances of our daily lives, I would say postmodernism affects my work or influences my work.

World, Shapes, Influence

Source: nefac.net

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