Bell Hooks Quotes about Stress

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I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being.

I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being.

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Stress, Thinking, Capacity

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

Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. These workshops are important, yet they tend to focus primarily on cathartic individual psychological personal prejudice without stressing the need for corresponding change in political commitment and action. A woman who attends an unlearning racism workshop and learns to acknowledge that she is racist is no less a threat than one who does not. Acknowledgment of racism is significant when it leads to transformation.

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Stress, Commitment, White

"Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center". Book by Bell Hooks, 1984.

. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression.

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Pain, Stress, Play

bell hooks, Cornel West (2016). “Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life”, p.110, Routledge

Bell Hooks Quotes about Stress

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