White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
You are not going to destroy this imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy by creating your own version of it, — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
While it has become “cool” for white folks to hang out with black people and express pleasure in black culture, most white… — 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
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
The fact is that it was bourgeois white feminism that I was reacting against when I stood in my first women's studies… — 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
I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Hip-Hop is diverse. But the white, capitalist producers and distributors of Hip-Hop are most interested in the Hip-Hip that is misogynist, that… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis. — 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
Since the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural identity and be “just humans” within the framework of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
In 2014, when Hillary Clinton was not yet running for president, I stated that I was not in agreement with her politics.… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Like many white liberals, Ken sees the whiteness of his social life as more an accident of circumstance than a choice. He… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Is it more important that you, as a white male, read my work and learn from it, or what you call me?… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I can be standing in Barneys with my coat and purse and my selections, and some white woman will say, 'Can you… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic. — 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
When we concentrate on photography, we make it possible to see the walls of photographs in black homes as a critical intervention,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white folks have prejudicial feelings… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Sexism has always been a political stance mediating social domination, enabling white men and black men to share a common sensibility about… — 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
Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. These workshops are… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
…“white supremacy” is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black… — 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
