Bell Hooks Quotes

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• You are not going to destroy this imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy by creating your own version of it,
• Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt…
• Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become the…
• When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.
• Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and…
• Spirituality and spiritual life give us the strength to love.
• When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.
• The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
• Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually -…
• I gather together the dreams, fantasies, experiences that preoccupied me as a girl, that stay with me and appear and reappear in different shapes and…
• To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this…
• As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
• Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white folks have prejudicial feelings about blacks (they…
• Love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.
• Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.
• The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny…
• Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
• I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom.
• To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
• If only one party in the relationship is working to create love, to create the space of emotional connection, the dominator model remains in place…

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