I think we are obsessed in the U.S. with the personal, in ways that blind us to more important issues of life.… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive… — 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
When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not… — 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
When I began to think deeply about the metaphysics of love I talked with everyone around me about it. I talked to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
We are rarely able to interact only with folks like ourselves, who think as we do. No matter how much some of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
You have to trust that if you are calling my name in a way that is offensive to me, I'm going to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It is necessary to remember, as we think critically about domination, that we all have the capacity to act in ways that… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Privilege is not in and of itself bad; what matters is what we do with privilege. I want to live in a… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
My hope emerges from those places of struggle where I witness individuals positively transforming their lives and the world around them. Educating… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I can be critical of Beyoncé and yet also appreciate aspects of her power and representation. I can especially critique the way… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
To me, a woman can't be a feminist just because she is a woman. She is a feminist because she begins to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
A distinction must be made between that writing which enables us to hold on to life even as we are clinging to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I'm lucky. I think it's good that I have a body of work that addresses different things in different ways. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Part of the heart of anarchy is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking about our realities.… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
For black folks, the camera provided a means to document a reality that could, if necessary, be packed, stored, moved from place… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are… — 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
