Bell Hooks Quotes

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• The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom.

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  Education, Freedom, Moving

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• When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.

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  I Love You, Moving, Love Is

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• To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.

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  Inspiring, Reality, Roots

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.110, Routledge

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• 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 shape who we are and how we live in the world.

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  Beloved Community, Differences, Identity

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• I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.... education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created.

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  Practice, Paradise, Students

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  Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.

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  Life, Badass, People

  Janet Mock (2014). “Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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  What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.

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  Believe, Important

  "The BK Nation INTERVIEW with bell hooks". Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. February 28, 2014.

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  The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.

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  Love, Moving, Way

  Bell Hooks (1994). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.298, Routledge

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• What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.

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  Imagine

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom”, p.53, Routledge

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• I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom.

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  Teaching, Practice, Movement

  Bell Hooks (2014). “Teaching To Transgress”, p.20, Routledge

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• 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, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community.

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  Meaningful, Moving, Differences

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope”, p.197, Routledge

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  [O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.

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  Community, Way, Resistance

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.227, Routledge

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• 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 in hopefulness. As teachers we believe that learning is possible, that nothing can keep an open mind from seeking after knowledge and finding a way to know.

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  Teacher, Believe, Struggle

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope”, p.14, Routledge

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• Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.

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  White, Tools, Shame

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• 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 institutions-and society-so that the way we live, teach, and work can reflect our joy in cultural diversity, our passion for justice, and our love of freedom.

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  Educational, Passion, Justice

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• The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.

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  Rage, Oppressed, Privileged

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• The true teacher is within us. A good teacher is someone who can help you to go back and touch the true teacher within, because you already have the insight within you.

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  Teacher, Helping, Insight

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• The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination.

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  Powerful, Love Is, Practice

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• Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

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  Commitment, Responsibility, Love Is

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom”, p.133, Routledge

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• True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.

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  Pain, People, Resistance

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.229, Routledge

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• The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom.

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  Moving, Moments

  Bell Hooks (1994). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.298, Routledge

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• The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem.

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  Self Esteem, Successful, Men

  bell hooks (2004). “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

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  Struggle, Political, Despair

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• 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 a superior party, one person is strong, the other weak, and that it is therefore natural for the powerful to rule over the powerless. To those who support patriarchal thinking, maintaining power and control is acceptable by whatever means.

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  Strong, Powerful, Party

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• One of the things that we must do as teachers is twirl around and around, and find out what works with the situation that we're in. Our models might not work. And that twirling, changing, is part of the empowerment.

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  Teacher, Empowerment, Might

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