Bell Hooks Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.

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  Silence, Racist, Faces

  "Killing Rage: Ending Racism". Book by Bell Hooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 1995.

• 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

• Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in educational settings.

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  Educational, Reality, Class

  Bell Hooks (2014). “Teaching To Transgress”, p.185, Routledge

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