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Bell Hooks Quotes - Page 3

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It is important and vital is to keep that education for critical consciousness around intersectionalities, so that people are able to not focus on one thing and blame one group, but be able to look holistically at the

It is important and vital is to keep that education for critical consciousness around intersectionalities, so that people are able to not focus on one thing and blame one group, but be able to look holistically at the way intersectionality informs all of us: whiteness, gender, sexual preferences, etc. Only then can we have a realistic handle on the political and cultural world we live within.

People, Political, Focus

The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community.

Community, Challenges, These Days

Spirituality and spiritual life give us the strength to love.

Love, Spiritual, Giving

Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.

Inspiring, Live Life, Justice

bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.118, Routledge

When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture.

Expression, Names, Profound

bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope”, p.14, Routledge

In 2014, when Hillary Clinton was not yet running for president, I stated that I was not in agreement with her politics. More recently, when asked my thoughts about Hillary Clinton during a public conversation with Gloria Steinem, I stated, "she embodies the very best of imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't vote for her."

Running, Mean, Agreement

A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers - the experience of knowing we always belong.

Heart, Knowing, Needs

There is light in darkness, you just have to find it.

Light, Darkness

bell hooks (2013). “remembered rapture: the writer at work”, p.3, Macmillan

Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.

Sexism, Powerless

bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.95, Routledge

To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility.

Responsibility, Thinking, Accountability

Living simply makes loving simple.

Simple, Simplicity

Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling.

Dream, Real, Commitment

Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.

Love, Giving, Self Love

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

Happiness, Success, Perseverance

Without justice there can be no love.

Justice, No Love

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.

Self Esteem, Heart, Self Love

All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.

Believe, Commitment, Expression

Of all the definitions of love that abound in our universe, a special favorite of mine is... “the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.”

Spiritual, Self, Growth

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

How different things might be if, rather than saying "I think I'm in love," we were saying "I've connected with someone in a way that makes me think I'm on the way to knowing love." Or if instead of saying "I am in love" we say "I am loving" or "I will love." Our patterns around romantic love are unlikely to change if we do not change our language.

Romantic Love, Thinking, Knowing Love

Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority.

Feminism, Majority, Oppression

bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.18, Routledge

Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and whether that work enhances our well-being.

Love, Self, Would Be

The soul of our politics is the commitment to ending domination.

Commitment, Soul, Domination

bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.103, Routledge

The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously is living with a core of healthy self-esteem. You will face reality, you will not delude yourself.

Self Esteem, Reality, Healthy

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

Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.

Race, Talking, Class

Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.

Honesty, Heart, Commitment

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