"One of the most subversive institutions in the……" — Bell Hooks
"One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.."
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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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London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything…
— David Attenborough
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I…
— Drew Barrymore
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An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding…
— Clara Barton
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Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families…
— Gary Bauer
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As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
— Pierre Beaumarchais
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs…
— Ruth Benedict
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the…
— Felix Adler
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Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.
— Annie Besant
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Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God…
— Lewis Black
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What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they…
— William Blake
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