All Bell Hooks Quotes
- I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that is redemptive, full… Age
- Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity, border crossing, subjectivity… Believe
- ..Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one’s own use - need not be… Acts
- When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can… Become Merely
- To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways… All
- All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing… Actually Practice
- Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear,… Afraid
- We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is… Cause
- Love is an action, never simply a feeling. Action
- The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in… Act
- Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated… Behalf
- The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be… Been
- All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity. Acts
- None of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of being immodest, and… Acting
- There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts… Change
- Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact… Black
- Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that… Affirmation
- While it has become “cool†for white folks to hang out with black people and express pleasure in black culture, most white people do not… Become Cool
- As more people of color raise our consciousness and refuse to be pitted against one another, the forces of neo-colonial white supremacist domination must work… Colonial
- To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to… African American