Bell Hooks Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others.

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  Girl, Children, Order

• Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.

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  Children, Passion, Learning

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom”, p.13, Routledge

• Only grown-ups think that the things children say come out of nowhere. We know they come from the deepest parts of ourselves.

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  Children, Thinking, Knows

• 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 of women and children stands in the ways of love.

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  Children, Impact, Males

  bell hooks (2018). “All About Love: New Visions”, p.22, HarperCollins

• If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.

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  Children, Self, Giving

• If Black women stand strong and our commitment is to ending domination I know that I'm supporting Black males, Black children male and female Black elderly because the bottom line is the struggle to end domination in all its forms.

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  Strong, Children, Struggle

  Interview with Pierce Freelon, blackademics.org. October, 2006.

• I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.

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  Children, Needs, Able

  "'There’s No Place to Go But Up' — bell hooks and Maya Angelou in conversation". Interview with Maya Angelou, www.lionsroar.com. January 1, 1998.

• When I began to think deeply about the metaphysics of love I talked with everyone around me about it. I talked to large audiences and even had wee one-on-one conversations with children about the way they think about love. I talked about love in every state, everywhere I traveled.

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  Children, Thinking, Way

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

• We don't really live in a culture that loves boys or loves children, and we don't encourage boys to be whole.

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  Children, Boys, Culture

  Source: nefac.net

• Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world stops affirming us, that we are seen as unlovable.

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  Girl, Children, Independent

• This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy.” Most children do not learn what to call this system of institutionaliz ed gender roles, so rarely do we name it in everyday speech. This silence promotes denial. And how can we organize to challenge and change a system that cannot be named?

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  Children, Names, Silence

  bell hooks (2004). “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

• There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

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  Children, Addiction, Abuse

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