I feel that I have many real students whom I have not met. Many are in cloisters and they never get out.… — 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
To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“What I'm here for is to work with the material, and to work with it the best way that I can. And… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intellectual process. We should… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
To teach in a manner that respects and cares for the souls of our students is essential if we are to provide… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“While it is positive for young black males and females to learn discipline and self-responsibility, those attitudes, values, and habits of being… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Privilege is not in and of itself bad; what matters is what we do with privilege. I want to live in a… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Feminist education — the feminist classroom — is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
schools for love do not exist. everyone assumes that we will know how to love instinctively. despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Education as the practice of freedom affirms healthy selfesteem in students as it promotes their capacity to be aware and live consciously.… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor… — 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 Image
“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 Image
... we need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
