"Since the notion that we should all forsake……" — Bell Hooks
"Since the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural identity and be “just humans” within the framework of white supremacy has usually meant that subordinate groups must surrender their identities, beliefs, values, and assimilate by adopting the values and beliefs of privileged-class whites, rather than promoting racial harmony this thinking has created a fierce cultural protectionism."
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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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What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and…
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I talked about adopting a baby when I was 20 years old, before it became 'hip.'
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House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his…
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Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing…
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It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of…
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The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a…
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The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
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All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to…
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Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in…
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The only objections that have occurred to me are, 1st that you have loaded yourself with an unnecessary difficulty in…
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Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and…
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