Thinking Quotes by Bell Hooks

I think we have to choose, what are the issues that really matter? We have to trust that.

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

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I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.

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If anything I think postmodernism has the least impact on my work.

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I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being.

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Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.

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I think part of Western metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other.

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I'm lucky. I think it's good that I have a body of work that addresses different things in different ways.

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I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a…

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Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.

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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…

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I think our culture doesn't recognize passion, because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries.

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Is it more important that you, as a white male, read my work and learn from it, or what you call me?…

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I think this is what people misunderstand about Martin Luther King saying to love your enemies. They think he was just using…

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How different things might be if, rather than saying "I think I'm in love," we were saying "I've connected with someone in…

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To me, a woman can't be a feminist just because she is a woman. She is a feminist because she begins to…

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One difference with the political writings, whether about feminism or class, is that the intent is to change how people think of…

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My focus has always been on the work - that work being critical thinking and writing. I am always doing that. That's…

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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 still think it's important for people to have a sharp, ongoing critique of marriage in patriarchal society — because once you…

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Patriarchy, like any system of domination (for example, racism), relies on socializing everyone to believe that in all human relations there is…

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I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining,…

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Since the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural identity and be “just humans” within the framework of…

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

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Often their rage erupts because they believe that all ways of looking that highlight difference subvert the liberal belief in a universal…

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We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intellectual process. We should…

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If I were really asked to define myself, I wouldn’t start with race; I wouldn’t start with blackness; I wouldn’t start with…

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

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I think we have to talk about educating the people for critical consciousness about what anarchy is.

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What's so amazing about this historical moment is that it is bringing class to the fore and we have to think about…

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Only grown-ups think that the things children say come out of nowhere. We know they come from the deepest parts of ourselves.

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I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.

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It's interesting to look at all the aspects where everyday Americans, many of whom are not college educated, are thinking deeply now…

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When I began to think deeply about the metaphysics of love I talked with everyone around me about it. I talked to…

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Part of the heart of anarchy is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking about our realities.…

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If we move away from either/or thinking, and if we think, okay, every day of my life that I walk out of…

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Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy—“to stand outside”—comes to…

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I think inequality is in our minds. I think this is what we learn through practice... The bridge of illusion must be…

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Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for…

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