"Most gay men are as sexist in their……" — Bell Hooks
"Most gay men are as sexist in their thinking as are heterosexuals. Their patriarchal thinking leads them to construct paradigms of desirable sexual behaviour that is similar to that of patriarchal straight men."
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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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I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.
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There's no map to human behaviour.
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Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping…
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Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities,…
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I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.
— Bill Bryson
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I've seen the real extreme diva behaviour and I don't think that's who I am.
— Mariah Carey
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Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
— Deepak Chopra
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An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be…
— Emile Durkheim
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On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak…
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Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself…
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Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game…
— A. P. Herbert
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When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behaviour that compromises…
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