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Bell Hooks Quotes - Page 9

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feminism is for everybody

feminism is for everybody

Motivational, Feminism

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

Patriarchy has no gender.

Gender, Patriarchy

bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom”, p.142, Routledge

We don't really live in a culture that loves boys or loves children, and we don't encourage boys to be whole.

Children, Boys, Culture

Source: nefac.net

Time and time again when I talk to individuals about approaching love with will and intentionality, I hear the fear expressed that this will bring an end to romance. This is simply not so. Approaching romantic love from foundation of care, knowledge, and respect actually intensifies romance

Romantic Love, Romance, Foundation

Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world stops affirming us, that we are seen as unlovable.

Girl, Children, Independent

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

Fun, Women, Moving

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

Within the new self-help books for women, patriarachy and male domination are rarely identified as forces that lead to the oppression, exploitation, and domination of women. Instead, these books suggest that individual relationships between men and women can be changed solely by women making the right choices.

Book, Men, Self

bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.45, Routledge

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.

Mean, Thinking, Perfect

"Bell Hooks and John Perry Barlow talk “prana in cyberspace”". Interview with John Perry Barlow, www.lionsroar.com. 1995.

Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.

Heart, People, Cynical

"All About Love: New Visions". Book by Nell Hooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2000.

..Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one’s own use - need not be synonymous with exploitation. This is especially true of cultural appropriation. The “use” one makes of what is appropriated is the crucial factor.

Needs, Use, Process

If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.

Littles, Chance, Language

Bell Hooks (1989). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.78, South End Press

Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.

Would Be, Definitions, How To Love

bell hooks (2018). “All About Love: New Visions”, p.4, HarperCollins

But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.

Love Is, Verbs, Nouns

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

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

Spiritual, Teacher, Buddhism

Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.

World, Way, Changing The World

Bell Hooks (2009). “Reel to Real: Race, Class and Sex at the Movies”, p.7, Routledge

When women and men understand that working to eradicate patriarchal domination is a struggle rooted in the longing to make a world where everyone can live fully and freely, then we know our work to be a gesture of love. Let us draw upon that love to heighten our awareness, deepen our compassion, intensify our courage and strengthen our commitment.

Struggle, Commitment, Compassion

bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.39, Routledge

Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse.

Abuse, Definitions, Definition Of Love

bell hooks (2018). “All About Love: New Visions”, p.8, HarperCollins

The greater our commitment, the more likely our love will last.

Commitment, Our Love, Lasts

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

They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as patriarchs, by other men, including white men. Yet they could not assume this position if black women were not willing to conform to prevailing sexist gender norms. Many black women who has endured white-supremacist patriarchal domination during slavery did not want to be dominated by black men after manumission.

Men, White Man, Black

I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.

Believe, Two, Healthy

bell hooks, Cornel West (2016). “Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life”, p.120, Routledge

While privacy strengthens all our bonds, secrecy weakens and damages connection. Lerner points out that we do not usually "know the emotional costs of keeping a secret" until the truth is disclosed. Usually, secrecy involves lying. And lying is always the setting for potential betrayal and violation of trust.

Betrayal, Lying, Emotional

It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.

Country, Thinking, Self

Feminism as a political movement has to specifically address the needs of men in their struggle to revolutionize their consciousness.

Struggle, Men, Political

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

We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intellectual process. We should forcefully explain that our role is not to teach them to think as we do but rather to teach them, by example, the importance of taking a stance that is rooted in rigorous engagement with the full range of ideas about a topic.

Education, Thoughtful, Thinking

If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.

Children, Self, Giving

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