Self Quotes by Bell Hooks

If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.

— bell hooks

People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.

— Bell Hooks

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.

— Bell Hooks

When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.

— Bell Hooks

I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.

— Bell Hooks

Whether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love cannot flourish in…

— Bell Hooks

The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously…

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Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work…

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The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is…

— Bell Hooks

If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power…

— Bell Hooks

It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have…

— Bell Hooks

Of all the definitions of love that abound in our universe, a special favorite of mine is... “the will to extend one's…

— Bell Hooks

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the…

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In order for me to engage in a revolutionary struggle for collective Black self-determination, I have to engage feminism because that becomes…

— Bell Hooks

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

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

— Bell Hooks

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

Any woman who wishes to be an intellectual, to write non-fiction, to deal with theory, faces a lot of discrimination coming her…

— Bell Hooks

I can be critical of Beyoncé and yet also appreciate aspects of her power and representation. I can especially critique the way…

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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…

— Bell Hooks

I think this is often misunderstood in the West, where people feel that there can be no justice unless everything is the…

— Bell Hooks

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

— Bell Hooks

In an ideal world we would all learn in childhood to love ourselves. We would grow, being secure in our worth and…

— Bell Hooks

Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression…

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To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.

— Bell Hooks

To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home…

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Relationships are treated like Dixie cups. They are the same. They are disposable. If it does not work, drop it, throw it…

— Bell Hooks

Even the wealthiest professional woman can be "brought down" by being in a relationship where she longs to be loved and is…

— Bell Hooks