When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Sadly, anarchy has gotten such a bad name. We don't really see much evidence of it because people associate it with reckless… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change. — bell hooks Copy Share Image
It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Right now, for many Americans, class is being foregrounded like never before because of the economic situation. It doesn't mean that race… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I think this is what people misunderstand about Martin Luther King saying to love your enemies. They think he was just using… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
One of the greatest difficulties the left faces in reaching out to masses of people in America is its profound disrespect of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The white worker who has been displaced at General Motors has more in common with the displaced black worker than those larger… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Radical militant feminist believes that women of color and Black women in particular have written the cutting edge theory and really were… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It is important and vital is to keep that education for critical consciousness around intersectionalities, so that people are able to not… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I think we are obsessed in the U.S. with the personal, in ways that blind us to more important issues of life.… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I think this is often misunderstood in the West, where people feel that there can be no justice unless everything is the… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Right now, for many Americans, class is being foregrounded like never before because of the economic situation. It doesn't mean that race doesn't matter,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share
“Most folks believe we are hardwired biologically to long for sex but they do not believe we are hardwired to long for love. Almost… — Bell Hooks Copy Share
... we need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously. — Bell Hooks Copy Share
The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share
“I feel enormously blessed to be a successful black woman writer in this culture, but I have found my small fame, such as it… — Bell Hooks Copy Share
In this culture, the phrase 'black woman' is not synonymous with 'tender,' or 'gentle.' It's as if those words couldn't possibly speak to the… — bell hooks Copy Share
It's interesting to look at all the aspects where everyday Americans, many of whom are not college educated, are thinking deeply now about our… — Bell Hooks Copy Share
The true teacher is within us. A good teacher is someone who can help you to go back and touch the true teacher within,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share
“Advancing the notion that there can be many "feminisms" has served the conservative and liberal political interests of women seeking status and privileged class… — bell hooks Copy Share
You must have courage to love, you have to have a profound will to do what is right to love, and it does not… — Bell Hooks Copy Share
To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients - care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open… — Bell Hooks Copy Share
“Often emphasis on identity and lifestyle is appealing because it creates a false sense that one is engaged in praxis. However, praxis within any… — bell hooks Copy Share
