Bell Hooks Quotes About Gender

Quotes about: Gender

• Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.

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  Race, Talking, Class

• Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated in movements for social justice, speaking out on behalf of the workers, the poor, speaking out on behalf of racial justice. However when it came to the issue of gender they were as sexist as their conservative cohorts.

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  Men, Issues, Justice

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.67, Routledge

• If I were really asked to define myself, I wouldn’t start with race; I wouldn’t start with blackness; I wouldn’t start with gender; I wouldn’t start with feminism. I would start with stripping down to what fundamentally informs my life, which is that I’m a seeker on the path. I think of feminism, and I think of anti-racist struggles as part of it. But where I stand spiritually is, steadfastly, on a path about love.

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  Struggle, Thinking, Race

  "Women’s Rights and Human Rights" by Judi Jennings, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2009.

• Patriarchy has no gender.

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  Gender, Patriarchy

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom”, p.142, Routledge

• 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

• They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as patriarchs, by other men, including white men. Yet they could not assume this position if black women were not willing to conform to prevailing sexist gender norms. Many black women who has endured white-supremacist patriarchal domination during slavery did not want to be dominated by black men after manumission.

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  Men, White Man, Black

• If we move away from either/or thinking, and if we think, okay, every day of my life that I walk out of my house I am a combination of race, gender, class, sexual preference and religion or what have you, what gets foregrounded?

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  Moving, Thinking, Race

  Source: nefac.net

• Right now, for many Americans, class is being foregrounded like never before because of the economic situation. It doesn't mean that race doesn't matter, or gender doesn't matter, but it means that right now in many people's lives, in the lives of my own family members, people are losing jobs, insurance.

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  Jobs, Mean, Race

  Source: nefac.net

• 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

• Yearning is the word that best describes a common psychological state shared by many of us, cutting across boundaries of race, class, gender, and sexual practice.

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  Cutting, Race, Practice

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.44, Routledge

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