I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The world demands that you work for it, make families, provide, take no time to listen to your own heart beating. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
To the extent that we live in a postmodern world and it shapes the concrete circumstances of our daily lives, I would… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and… — 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
I see myself, in terms of the question of capitalism, as I would support democratic socialism over a capitalist system, because any… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
When women and men understand that working to eradicate patriarchal domination is a struggle rooted in the longing to make a world… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
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
I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It is important and vital is to keep that education for critical consciousness around intersectionalities, so that people are able to not… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits. — bell hooks Copy Share Image
Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males are not alike or even always equal, but… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
In an ideal world we would all learn in childhood to love ourselves. We would grow, being secure in our worth and… — 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
I was teasing my brother that he was penniless, homeless, jobless. Right now in his life, racism isn't the central highlighting force:… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
We live in a world with serious class complexes. It is one thing to be a college student with loan debts and… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining,… — 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
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
The time has come to tell the truth. Again. There is no love without justice. Men and women who cannot be just… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It was the world of Southern, rural, black growing up, of folks sitting on porches day and night, of folks calling your… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
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
When I think about the auto-industry and how it was one of the industries that brought all of these black men from… — 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
