Bell Hooks Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.

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  Littles, Chance, Language

  Bell Hooks (1989). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.78, South End Press

• How different things might be if, rather than saying "I think I'm in love," we were saying "I've connected with someone in a way that makes me think I'm on the way to knowing love." Or if instead of saying "I am in love" we say "I am loving" or "I will love." Our patterns around romantic love are unlikely to change if we do not change our language.

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  Romantic Love, Thinking, Knowing Love

• Language is also a place of struggle.

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  Struggle, Language

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.40, Routledge

• Like desire, language disrupts, refuses to be contained within boundaries.

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  Sex, Desire, Language

  Bell Hooks (2014). “Teaching To Transgress”, p.175, Routledge

• Dare I speak ,to oppressed and opressor in the same voice? Dare I speak to you in a language that will move beyond the boundaries of domination- a language, that will not bind you, fence you in, or hold you? Language is also a place of struggle. The oppressed struggle in language to recover ourselves, to reconcile, to reunite, to renew. Our words are not without meaning, they are an action, a resistance. Language is also a place of struggle.

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  Struggle, Moving, Voice

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.160, Routledge

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