Children Quotes by Bell Hooks

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

— Bell Hooks

Only grown-ups think that the things children say come out of nowhere. We know they come from the deepest parts of ourselves.

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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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I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be…

— Bell Hooks

I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.

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I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and…

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

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If Black women stand strong and our commitment is to ending domination I know that I'm supporting Black males, Black children male…

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“To demystify the meaning of love, the art and practice of loving, we need to use sound definitions of love when talking…

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The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other…

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When I began to think deeply about the metaphysics of love I talked with everyone around me about it. I talked to…

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A central theme of all about love is that from childhood into adulthood we are often taught misguided and false assumptions about…

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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane…

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Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in…

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Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world…

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This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy.” Most children do not…

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“the wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by…

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In an ideal world we would all learn in childhood to love ourselves. We would grow, being secure in our worth and…

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“Often men who have been emotionally neglected and abused as children by dominating mothers bond with assertive women, only to have their…

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“In a culture which holds the two-parent patriarchal family in higher esteem than any other arrangement, all children feel emotionally insecure when…

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“A huge majority of parents use some form of physical or verbal aggression against children. Since women remain the primary caretakers of…

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