--- title: "15 Bell Hooks Quotes by 12 authors" description: "Browse 15 Bell Hooks quotes by 12 authors. Discover the best Bell Hooks sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42f/trista-hendren-28549_life_i-will-not-have-my-life-narrowed-down-i_1814513.jpg" --- > [“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/trista-hendren/i-will-not-have-my-life-narrowed-down-i-will-not-bow-down-to-somebody-2/) [Trista Hendren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/trista-hendren/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42f/trista-hendren-28549_life_i-will-not-have-my-life-narrowed-down-i_1814513.jpg) > [I'm terrified of saying the wrong thing on stage with bell hooks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laverne-cox/i-m-terrified-of-saying-the-wrong-thing-on-stage-with-bell-hooks/) [Laverne Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laverne-cox/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44c/laverne-cox-12172_bells_i-m-terrified-of-saying-the-wrong-thing_3096435.jpg) > [“Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.” - Bell Hooks”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/win-quier/life-transforming-ideas-have-always-come-to-me-through-books-bell/) [Win Quier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/win-quier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d8/win-quier-137220_autism_life-transforming-ideas-have-always-come_106419.jpg) > [“...I learned the power of identity--the idea that even an uneducated woman, like myself, who hadn't read Mary Wollstonecraft or bell hooks,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amber-dawn/i-learned-the-power-of-identity-the-idea-that-even-an-uneducated/) [Amber Dawn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amber-dawn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfc/amber-dawn-32462_feminism_i-learned-the-power-of-identity-the-idea_2418260.jpg) > [“She wanted me to remember that pleasure is political--for the capacity to relax and play renews the spirit and makes it possible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bell-hooks/she-wanted-me-to-remember-that-pleasure-is-political-for-the-capacity/) [Bell Hooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bell-hooks/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00d/bell-hooks-464_play_she-wanted-me-to-remember-that-pleasure_2127527.jpg) > [I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danzy-senna/i-was-influenced-growing-up-by-everything-from-harlequin-romances-to/) [Danzy Senna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danzy-senna/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fac/danzy-senna-19310_dostoyevsky_i-was-influenced-growing-up-by-everythin_1097517.jpg) > [The biggest thinker that's influenced my feminism is definitely Bell Hooks, who's a feminist cultural critic, because of her accessibility but also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-valenti/the-biggest-thinker-that-s-influenced-my-feminism-is-definitely-bell/) [Jessica Valenti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-valenti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5be/jessica-valenti-1960_accessibility_the-biggest-thinker-that-s-influenced-my_1025616.png) > [I am passionate about everything in my life--first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that's a dangerous person to be in this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-am-passionate-about-everything-in-my-life-first-and-foremost/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42b/anonymous-1_bells_i-am-passionate-about-everything-in-my-l_1593582.jpg) > [“I was a young girl buying bubble gum at the corner store when I first really heard the full name bell hooks.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bell-hooks/i-was-a-young-girl-buying-bubble-gum-at-the-corner-store-when-i-first/) [Bell Hooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bell-hooks/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/929/bell-hooks-464_black-women-writers_i-was-a-young-girl-buying-bubble-gum-at_2327730.jpg) > [When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I was generally polite,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-valenti/when-i-started-blogging-in-2004-i-responded-to-every-comment-no/) [Jessica Valenti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-valenti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e3/jessica-valenti-1960_believing_when-i-started-blogging-in-2004-i-respon_885615.png) > [“Read everything you can push into your skull. Read your mother’s diary. Read Assata. Read everything Gloria Steinem and bell hooks write.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabby-rivera/read-everything-you-can-push-into-your-skull-read-your-mother-s-diary/) [Gabby Rivera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabby-rivera/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ffa/gabby-rivera-26456_books_read-everything-you-can-push-into-your-s_901875.jpg) > [I read everything and anything related to being queer. I found solace in reading authors like Audre Lorde and bell hooks, who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrisse-cullors/i-read-everything-and-anything-related-to-being-queer-i-found-solace/) [Patrisse Cullors](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrisse-cullors/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/75b/patrisse-cullors-5946_bold_i-read-everything-and-anything-related-t_1537349.jpg) > [People review my comic books. People review every article I write - 'The Atlantic' even publishes them. A great deal of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ta-nehisi-coates/people-review-my-comic-books-people-review-every-article-i-write-the/) [Ta-Nehisi Coates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ta-nehisi-coates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/999/ta-nehisi-coates-733_best_people-review-my-comic-books-people-revi_1380161.png) > [When the feminist movement was at its zenith in the late 60's and early 70's, there was a lot of moving away…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bell-hooks/when-the-feminist-movement-was-at-its-zenith-in-the-late-60-s-and/) [Bell Hooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bell-hooks/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ce/bell-hooks-464_ancestor_when-the-feminist-movement-was-at-its-ze_192979.jpg) > [“The feminist philosophy that has shaped my thinking has been articulated most clearly by Marilyn Frye;67 Catharine MacKinnon68 has been influential in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-jensen/the-feminist-philosophy-that-has-shaped-my-thinking-has-been/) [Robert Jensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-jensen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/31b/robert-jensen-24357_black-feminist_the-feminist-philosophy-that-has-shaped_3224235.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bell-hooks/#itemlist", "name": "Bell Hooks Quotes", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I will not have my life narrowed down. 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Important to the struggle to bring to feminist theory and politics a deeper analysis of the complexity of all these interactions among systems of power has been Patricia Hill Collins’ 1990 book on black feminist thought and “the matrix of domination.”71 Other sources of my early understanding of these themes were the work of bell hooks, especially her 1984 book72 and her ongoing critique of “white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy,” and the influential 1981 collection This Bridge Called My Back: Writing by Radical Women of Color.73 Today”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Jensen" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-jensen/the-feminist-philosophy-that-has-shaped-my-thinking-has-been/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/31b/robert-jensen-24357_black-feminist_the-feminist-philosophy-that-has-shaped_3224235.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/31b/robert-jensen-24357_black-feminist_the-feminist-philosophy-that-has-shaped_3224235.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/31b/robert-jensen-24357_black-feminist_the-feminist-philosophy-that-has-shaped_3224235.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The feminist philosophy that has shaped my thinking has been articulated most clearly by Marilyn Frye;67…” — Robert Jensen", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bell-hooks/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bell-hooks/", "name": "Bell Hooks Quotes", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bell-hooks/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42f/trista-hendren-28549_life_i-will-not-have-my-life-narrowed-down-i_1814513.jpg" }, "description": "Browse 15 Bell Hooks quotes by 12 authors. 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