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Work Quotes by Bell Hooks
- 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…
- Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that…
- 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…
- When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.
- Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and…
- I gather together the dreams, fantasies, experiences that preoccupied me as a girl, that stay with me and appear and reappear in different shapes and…
- 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…
- 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…
- Contrary to what some folks would have us believe, it is not tragic, even if undesirable, for a person to leave a liberal arts education…
- Feminist education — the feminist classroom — is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there is visible acknowledgment…
- Relationships are treated like Dixie cups. They are the same. They are disposable. If it does not work, drop it, throw it away, get another.…
- 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…
- As more people of color raise our consciousness and refuse to be pitted against one another, the forces of neo-colonial white supremacist domination must work…
- The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and…
- In patriarchal culture men are especially inclined to see love as something they should receive without expending effort. More often than not they do not…
More Work Quotes
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Successful people don't relax on a chair. They feel relaxed with their work. They sleep with their dreams and wake up with… — Ritu Ghatourey
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to… — Kevin Bacon
- Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me… — Lucille Ball
- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson