“I feel enormously blessed to be a successful black woman writer in this culture, but I have found my small fame, such… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong. — 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
Part of why I have started writing about love is feeling that our culture is forgetting what Martin Luther King taught. We… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“I write these words to bear witness to the primacy of resistance struggle in any situation of domination (even within family life);… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“Writing is my passion. Words are the way to know ecstasy. Without them life is barren. The poet insists, language is a… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy—“to stand outside”—comes to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I mostly want to remind her of the recipes of healing, and give her my own made-on-the spot remedy for the easing… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
My focus has always been on the work - that work being critical thinking and writing. I am always doing that. That's… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“There are writers who write for fame. And there are writers who write because we need to make sense of the world… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“She wanted me to remember that pleasure is political--for the capacity to relax and play renews the spirit and makes it possible… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
One difference with the political writings, whether about feminism or class, is that the intent is to change how people think of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
If we are ever to construct a feminist movement that is not based on the premise that men and women are always… — 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
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
“Her love of words is a private passion - one she would rather not share. In the house of her childhood though… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever… — 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
