Men Quotes by Bell Hooks

White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.

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When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.

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Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune.

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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.

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Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions…

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Feminism as a political movement has to specifically address the needs of men in their struggle to revolutionize their consciousness.

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Most gay men are as sexist in their thinking as are heterosexuals. Their patriarchal thinking leads them to construct paradigms of desirable…

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I feel sad that we have allowed these knee-jerk feminists who want to act like it's a struggle against men...but again that's…

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I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.

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The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared…

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Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of…

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Sexism has always been a political stance mediating social domination, enabling white men and black men to share a common sensibility about…

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Within the new self-help books for women, patriarachy and male domination are rarely identified as forces that lead to the oppression, exploitation,…

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If you're in a domestic situation where the man is violent, patriarchy and male domination - even though you understand it intersectionally…

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Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical…

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When women and men understand that working to eradicate patriarchal domination is a struggle rooted in the longing to make a world…

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Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that…

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The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that…

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Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Its aim is not to benefit solely any specific group of women, any particular…

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In patriarchal culture men are especially inclined to see love as something they should receive without expending effort. More often than not…

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“Dominator culture teaches all of us that the core of our identity is defined by the will to dominate and control others.…

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Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in…

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“To create loving men, we must love males. Loving maleness is different from praising and rewarding males for living up to sexist-defined…

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This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men…

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If we are ever to construct a feminist movement that is not based on the premise that men and women are always…

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When I think about the auto-industry and how it was one of the industries that brought all of these black men from…

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“Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. It is rooted in the love of male and female being, refusing to privilege…

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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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“Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they choose to be intimate with are frozen in…

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The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. Until we make this distinction…

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No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are…

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Women have endeavored to guide men to love because patriarchal thinking has sanctioned this work even as it has undermined it by…

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They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as…

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Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and…

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“Most folks believe we are hardwired biologically to long for sex but they do not believe we are hardwired to long for…

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As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not…

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The time has come to tell the truth. Again. There is no love without justice. Men and women who cannot be just…

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What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe…

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“Emotional neglect lays the groundwork for the emotional numbing that helps boys feel better about being cut off. Eruptions of rage in…

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