"This rule of silence is upheld when the……" — Bell Hooks
"This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy.” Most children do not learn what to call this system of institutionaliz ed gender roles, so rarely do we name it in everyday speech. This silence promotes denial. And how can we organize to challenge and change a system that cannot be named?"
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251 Quotes by Bell Hooks
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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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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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Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.
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Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.
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Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.
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You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all…
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