"If we want a beloved community, we must……" — Bell Hooks
"If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege."
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251 Quotes by Bell Hooks
Bell Hooks has 251 quotes on this site.
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The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love,…
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Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.
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Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we…
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The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength…
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Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would…
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All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if…
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I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of…
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People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.
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Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to…
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I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via…
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The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself…
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Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of…
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