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Community Quotes by Bell Hooks
- The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to…
- Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to process all our issues, to…
- 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…
- If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
- Like many white liberals, Ken sees the whiteness of his social life as more an accident of circumstance than a choice. He would welcome greater…
- For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part…
- If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege.
- To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways…
- All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing…
- Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear,…
- 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…
- Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that…
- One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness –…
- I mostly want to remind her of the recipes of healing, and give her my own made-on-the spot remedy for the easing of her pain.…
More Community Quotes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi
- That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. — Marcus Aurelius
- We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans. — Alan Autry
- There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the… — Ibrahim Babangida
- Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their… — Joe Baca
- Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10 years, am… — Ernie Banks
- I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our… — Jane Addams
- Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans. — Xavier Becerra
- You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich. — Henry Ward Beecher