All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live… — 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
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
Yearning is the word that best describes a common psychological state shared by many of us, cutting across boundaries of race, class,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I would also say that, in practice, many more Americans are anarchists than would ever use that term. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
In patriarchal culture men are especially inclined to see love as something they should receive without expending effort. More often than not… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
None of us, irrespective of our sexual preference and/or practice, imagine that we can have an intimate relationship with a partner and… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I think inequality is in our minds. I think this is what we learn through practice... The bridge of illusion must be… — 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
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
Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our… — 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
Love is first and foremost exemplified by action - by practice - not solely by feeling. — 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
The intellectual tradition of the West is very individualistic. It's not community-based. The intellectual is often thought of as a person who… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
When we are more energized by the practice of blaming than we are by efforts to create transformation, we not only cannot… — 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
