. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white folks have prejudicial feelings… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
In our young minds houses belonged to women were their special domain, not as property, but as places where all that truly… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity,… — 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
While it has become “cool” for white folks to hang out with black people and express pleasure in black culture, most white… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
For black folks, the camera provided a means to document a reality that could, if necessary, be packed, stored, moved from place… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
... the outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow notions of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
We are rarely able to interact only with folks like ourselves, who think as we do. No matter how much some of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The notion that black folks have nothing to learn from scholarship that may reflect racial or racist biases is dangerous. It promotes… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It was the world of Southern, rural, black growing up, of folks sitting on porches day and night, of folks calling your… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Contrary to what some folks would have us believe, it is not tragic, even if undesirable, for a person to leave a… — 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
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