"Because we have learned to believe negativity is……" — Bell Hooks

"Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice."

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251 Quotes by Bell Hooks

Bell Hooks has 251 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love,…
Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we…
The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength…
Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would…
All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if…
I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of…
People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.
Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to…
I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via…
The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself…
Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of…
I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need…

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