Bell Hooks Quotes About Consciousness

Quotes about: Consciousness

• I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison.

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  Solitude, Black, Males

  "“There’s No Place to Go But Up” — Bell Hooks and Maya Angelou in conversation". Interview with Melvin McLeod, www.lionsroar.com. January 1, 1998.

• 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 harder to divide and conquer.

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  Color, White, People

• I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to talk about the fact that we cannot educate for critical consciousness if we have a group of people who cannot access Fanon, Cabral, or Audre Lorde because they can’t read or write. How did Malcolm X radicalize his consciousness? He did it through books. If you deprive working-class and poor black people of access to reading and writing, you are making them that much farther removed from being a class that can engage in revolutionary resistance.

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  Book, Reading, Writing

• It is important and vital is to keep that education for critical consciousness around intersectionalities, so that people are able to not focus on one thing and blame one group, but be able to look holistically at the way intersectionality informs all of us: whiteness, gender, sexual preferences, etc. Only then can we have a realistic handle on the political and cultural world we live within.

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  People, Political, Focus

• 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 to transform structures.

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  Effort, Understanding, Way

• One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness – in communities, in institutions, among friends.

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  Differences, Support, Community

• To me, a woman can't be a feminist just because she is a woman. She is a feminist because she begins to divest herself of sexist ways of thinking and revolutionizes her consciousness.

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  Thinking, Feminist, Way

  "Challenging Capitalism and Patriarchy: An Interview with Bell Hooks". Third World Viewpoint Interview, espressostalinist.com. July 15, 2013.

• Feminism as a political movement has to specifically address the needs of men in their struggle to revolutionize their consciousness.

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  Struggle, Men, Political

  "Challenging Capitalism and Patriarchy: An Interview with bell hooks". Third World Viewpoint Interview, espressostalinist.com. July 15, 2013.

• I think we have to talk about educating the people for critical consciousness about what anarchy is.

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  Thinking, People, Anarchy

  Source: nefac.net

• Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.

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  Challenges, Adults, Fiction

  bell hooks (2003). “Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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