Bell Hooks Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• 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

• When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.

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  Relationship, Pain, Commitment

• I mostly want to remind her of the recipes of healing, and give her my own made-on-the spot remedy for the easing of her pain. I tell her, “Get a pen. Stop crying so you can write this down and start working on it tonight.” My remedy is long. But the last item on the list says: “When you wake up and find yourself living someplace where there is nobody you love and trust, no community, it is time to leave town – to pack up and go (you can even go tonight). And where you need to go is any place where there are arms that can hold you, that will not let you go.

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  Pain, Writing, Healing

• The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

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  Hurt, Pain, Loss

• In patriarchal culture men are especially inclined to see love as something they should receive without expending effort. More often than not they do not want to do the work that love demands. When the practice of love invites us to enter a place of potential bliss that is at the same time a place of critical awakening and pain, many of us turn our backs on love.

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  Pain, Men, Practice

• To indoctrinate boys into the rules of patriarchy, we force them to feel pain and to
  deny their feelings.

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  Pain, Boys, Feelings

  bell hooks (2004). “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

• . . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression.

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  Pain, Stress, Play

  bell hooks, Cornel West (2016). “Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life”, p.110, Routledge

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