I think it's crazy for us to think that people don't understand what's being foregrounded in their lives at a given point… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children. — bell hooks Copy Share Image
These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism. — bell hooks Copy Share Image
True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Even when people capitalize my name, I don't freak out, even though that would not be my choice. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Usually, when people talk about the "strength" of black women . . . . they ignore the reality that to be strong… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
As more people of color raise our consciousness and refuse to be pitted against one another, the forces of neo-colonial white supremacist… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
A very hurting thing for Black Americans - to feel that we can't love our enemies. People forget what a great tradition… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
One of the things I find most exciting is talking with people who are working with my work. Who are using it… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
One difference with the political writings, whether about feminism or class, is that the intent is to change how people think of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I still think it's important for people to have a sharp, ongoing critique of marriage in patriarchal society — because once you… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I see myself, in terms of the question of capitalism, as I would support democratic socialism over a capitalist system, because any… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
We live in a world with serious class complexes. It is one thing to be a college student with loan debts and… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Often their rage erupts because they believe that all ways of looking that highlight difference subvert the liberal belief in a universal… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I think this is what people misunderstand about Martin Luther King saying to love your enemies. They think he was just using… — 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… — 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
When the feminist movement was at its zenith in the late 60's and early 70's, there was a lot of moving away… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to… — 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
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change. — bell hooks Copy Share Image
Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits. — bell hooks Copy Share Image
I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Sadly, anarchy has gotten such a bad name. We don't really see much evidence of it because people associate it with reckless… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I think we have to talk about educating the people for critical consciousness about what anarchy is. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The white worker who has been displaced at General Motors has more in common with the displaced black worker than those larger… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
One of the greatest difficulties the left faces in reaching out to masses of people in America is its profound disrespect of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the… — 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
