All Bell Hooks Quotes
- Often their rage erupts because they believe that all ways of looking that highlight difference subvert the liberal belief in a universal subjectivity (we are… Action
- What we cannot imagine cannot come into being. Cannot Come
- The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created. Academy
- Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy†to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No one has ever… Accurately
- True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it. Begins
- For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch… Accountable
- I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance. Bow
- It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the… Act
- I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love. Began
- Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other. Each
- Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books. Always Come
- When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly… All
- I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words. Contemplation
- The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech. Any
- But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun. Feel
- The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic. Civil
- I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming… Becoming
- No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the… America
- Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always… All
- I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and… Body