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Bell Hooks Quotes - Page 5

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Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication.

Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication.

Communication, Choices, Next Steps

Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all that is good remains wedded to the very logic of Western metaphysical dualism that is the heart of racist binary thinking. Such thinking is not liberatory. Like the racist educational ideology it mirrors and imitates, it invites a closing of the mind.

Educational, Heart, Thinking

Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels.

Struggle, Feminism, Western Culture

bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.26, Routledge

The world demands that you work for it, make families, provide, take no time to listen to your own heart beating.

Heart, World, Demand

To indoctrinate boys into the rules of patriarchy, we force them to feel pain and to deny their feelings.

Pain, Boys, Feelings

bell hooks (2004). “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.

Silence, Racist, Faces

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

America is a country that would rather talk about race than class.

Country, America, Race

Source: nefac.net

There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures.

Effort, Understanding, Way

The white worker who has been displaced at General Motors has more in common with the displaced black worker than those larger white CEO's, and those Wall Street people who are determining their fate... whose thievery and greed is determining their fate.

Wall, Fate, White

Source: nefac.net

If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.

Fall, Action, Responsible

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

Country, Rights, Justice

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

To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.

Meaningful, Tasks, Meaningful Relationship

The struggle to end sexist oppression that focuses on destroying the cultural basis for such domination strengthens other liberation struggles. Individuals who fight for the eradication of sexism without struggles to end racism or classism undermine their own efforts. Individuals who fight for the eradication of racism or classism while supporting sexist oppression are helping to maintain the cultural basis of all forms of group oppression.

Struggle, Fighting, Racism

bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.57, Routledge

The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet al the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb.

Love Is, Verbs, Nouns

The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.

Revolution, Fierce, Progressive

bell hooks (2012). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.7, Routledge

…“white supremacy” is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not involve force (i.e slavery, apartheid) than the term “internalized racism”- a term most often used to suggest that black people have absorbed negative feelings and attitudes about blackness. The term “white supremacy” enables us to recognize not only that black people are socialized to embody the values and attitudes of white supremacy, but we can exercise “white supremacist control” over other black people.

Attitude, Exercise, Color

If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.

Self, Agency, Giving

A central theme of all about love is that from childhood into adulthood we are often taught misguided and false assumptions about the nature of love. Perhaps the most common false assumption about love is that love means we will not be challenged or changed.

Mean, Love Is, Childhood

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

A good teacher is someone who can help you to get back to a teacher within.

Teacher, Helping, Good Teacher

The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our ‘natural’ condition.

Believe, Love Is, Our Society

Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression in the family context and in all other intimate relationships. It is that political movement which most radically addresses the person – the personal – citing the need for the transformation of self, of relationships, so that we might be better able to act in a revolutionary manner, challenging and resisting domination, transforming the world outside the self.

Intimate Relationships, Self, Feminist

bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.34, Routledge

Love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.

Doe, Redemption, Want

While it has become “cool” for white folks to hang out with black people and express pleasure in black culture, most white people do not feel that this pleasure should be linked to unlearning racism.

White, Racism, People

bell hooks (2014). “Black Looks: Race and Representation”, p.17, Routledge

schools for love do not exist. everyone assumes that we will know how to love instinctively. despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, we still accept that the family is the primary school for love. those of us who do not learn how to love among family are expected to experience love in romantic relationships. however this love often eludes us.

School, Elude Us, How To Love

bell hooks (2018). “All About Love: New Visions”, p.26, HarperCollins

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.

Thinking, Race, Ethnicity

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