"The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a……" — Bell Hooks
"The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution."
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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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The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'
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Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A…
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It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.
— Bob Barr
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I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and…
— Roseanne Barr
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I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American…
— Saul Bellow
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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have…
— Theodore Bikel
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We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity.
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The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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I wouldn't necessarily say she is a country artist. I mean, obviously Taylor Swift started in country, but she morphed…
— Luke Bryan
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The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result…
— Julie Burchill
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The fact that 'Astro Boy' appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character…
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