Bell Hooks Quotes about Passion

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All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are to transform educational institutions-and society-so that the way we live, teach, and work can reflect our joy in cultural

All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are to transform educational institutions-and society-so that the way we live, teach, and work can reflect our joy in cultural diversity, our passion for justice, and our love of freedom.

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Educational, Passion, Justice

I think our culture doesn't recognize passion, because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries.

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Real, Passion, Thinking

Bell Hooks (1996). “Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies”, p.122, Psychology Press

Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.

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Children, Passion, Learning

bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom”, p.13, Routledge

Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy—“to stand outside”—comes to me in those moments when I am immersed so deeply in the act of thinking and writing that everything else, even flesh, falls away.

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Fall, Passion, Writing

bell hooks (2013). “remembered rapture: the writer at work”, p.35, Macmillan