Bell Hooks Quotes About Risk

Quotes about: Risk

• Part of the racialized sexism wants everyone to think that a 15-year old Mexican is not a girl, she’s a woman. We know she’s a girl. We can never emphasize this enough, because this is the fate of colored girls globally right now: the denial of their girlhood, the denial of their childhood, and the constant state of risk and danger they are living in.

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  Girl, Fate, Thinking

• Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community.

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  Meaningful, Moving, Differences

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope”, p.197, Routledge

• 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

• To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone. Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what I should be. School was the place where I could forget that self and, through ideas, reinvent myself.

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  Home, School, Self

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