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Thinking 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…
- To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this…
- How different things might be if, rather than saying "I think I'm in love," we were saying "I've connected with someone in a way that…
- We are rarely able to interact only with folks like ourselves, who think as we do. No matter how much some of us deny this…
- Patriarchy, like any system of domination (for example, racism), relies on socializing everyone to believe that in all human relations there is an inferior and…
- Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.
- Women have endeavored to guide men to love because patriarchal thinking has sanctioned this work even as it has undermined it by teaching men to…
- Part of the heart of anarchy is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking about our realities. Anarchists have always…
- Often their rage erupts because they believe that all ways of looking that highlight difference subvert the liberal belief in a universal subjectivity (we are…
- I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming…
- I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
- I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.
- I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.
- I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
- Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that…
- Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative…
- Think of all the women you know who will not allow themselves to be seen without makeup. I often wonder how they feel about themselves…
- I am passionate about everything in my life--first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that's a dangerous person to be in this society, not just…
- I still think it's important for people to have a sharp, ongoing critique of marriage in patriarchal society — because once you marry within a…
- As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a problem. Masses…
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