"White women and black men have it both……" — Bell Hooks

"White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others."

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251 Quotes by Bell Hooks

Bell Hooks has 251 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love,…
Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.
Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we…
The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength…
Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would…
All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if…
I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of…
People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.
Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to…
I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via…
The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself…
Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of…

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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