All Bell Hooks Quotes
- The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love, we begin to move toward… Act
- Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice. Any
- Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with… Always Longed
- The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to… Belong
- Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot… Abound
- All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are to transform educational… Academy
- I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the… All
- People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities. Create
- Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to process all our issues, to… All
- I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining, come to understand… Able
- The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be with someone else… Able
- Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical dualism, many of… Accepted
- I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet… Able
- Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource. All
- Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. Couple
- Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that… Alienated
- In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with… All
- Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness. Adult
- The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution. Cultural
- Whenever domination is present, love is lacking. Domination