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Way Quotes by Bell Hooks
- The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love, we begin to move toward…
- All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are to transform educational…
- Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become the…
- 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…
- White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.
- 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…
- Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.
- My hope emerges from those places of struggle where I witness individuals positively transforming their lives and the world around them. Educating is a vocation rooted…
- 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…
- There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is…
- Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in which male domination…
- Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.
- ..Critically intervene in a way that challenges and changes.
- I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that is redemptive, full…
- When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can…
- 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…
- There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts…
- It is necessary to remember, as we think critically about domination, that we all have the capacity to act in ways that oppress, dominate, wound…
- When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism as…
- Privilege is not in and of itself bad; what matters is what we do with privilege. I want to live in a world where all…
- Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy—“to stand outside”—comes to me in those…
- A distinction must be made between that writing which enables us to hold on to life even as we are clinging to old hurts and…
- All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In…
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