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Black Quotes by Bell Hooks
- I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining, come to understand…
- White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.
- Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black…
- No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the…
- I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read…
- I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
- I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.
- I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.
- What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black…
- Usually, when people talk about the "strength" of black women . . . . they ignore the reality that to be strong in the face…
- I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to…
- I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to talk about the…
- No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.
- Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all that…
- Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact…
- While it has become “cool” for white folks to hang out with black people and express pleasure in black culture, most white people do not…
- …“white supremacy” is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not…
- Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black identity be defined…
- They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as patriarchs, by other…
- In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we…
- The working-class black Southern Christian culture I come from still nurtures me, and I mean directly, daily.
- Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.
More Black Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman
- When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery… — Teresa of Avila
- Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s. — Dan Aykroyd
- It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over… — Erykah Badu
- Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James A. Baldwin
- The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. — James A. Baldwin
- Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. — James A. Baldwin
- The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. — James A. Baldwin
- They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be… — Afrika Bambaataa