All Bell Hooks Quotes
- I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read… Behave
- I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply. Art
- I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously. Black
- Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to… Buddhism
- I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other. Acting
- I think I was always obsessed with esthetics. Always Obsessed
- I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health. All
- I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole. Everybody
- I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism. Book
- What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get… Age
- Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that… Art
- Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative… Accessible
- What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black… All
- Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by… Affirm
- The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our ‘natural’ condition. Anguish
- feminism is for everybody Everybody
- Think of all the women you know who will not allow themselves to be seen without makeup. I often wonder how they feel about themselves… All
- There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is… All
- Living simply makes loving simple. Funny
- Without justice there can be no love. Funny