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• It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.

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  Country, Thinking, Self

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• We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intellectual process. We should forcefully explain that our role is not to teach them to think as we do but rather to teach them, by example, the importance of taking a stance that is rooted in rigorous engagement with the full range of ideas about a topic.

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  Education, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity, border crossing, subjectivity constructed out of plurality, the vast majority of folks in this society still believe in a notion of identity that is rooted in a sense of essential traits and characteristics that are fixed and static.

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  Believe, Vision, Criticism

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• If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.

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  Children, Self, Giving

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• I think we have to choose, what are the issues that really matter? We have to trust that.

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  Thinking, Issues, Matter

  Source: nefac.net

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• Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against.

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  Black, World, Black Women

  "Communion: The Female Search for Love". Book by Bell Hooks, January 22, 2002.

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• In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable.

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  Culture, Preoccupation, Inevitable

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• Love is first and foremost exemplified by action - by practice - not solely by feeling.

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  Love Is, Practice, Feelings

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• It is poetry that changes everything.

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• I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure and joy.

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  Struggle, Teaching, Giving

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• We are rarely able to interact only with folks like ourselves, who think as we do. No matter how much some of us deny this reality and long for the safety and familiarity of sameness, inclusive ways of knowing and living offer us the only true way to emancipate ourselves from the divisions that limit our minds and imaginations.

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  Reality, Thinking, Knowing

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• To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.

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  Love, Believe, Giving

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• There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

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  Children, Addiction, Abuse

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• Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger.

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  People, Abuse, Might

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.97, Routledge

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• ... the outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow notions of racial solidarity that suppress dissent and critique can lead black folks to support individuals who will not protect their rights.

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  Rights, Support, Black

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• I'm lucky. I think it's good that I have a body of work that addresses different things in different ways.

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  Thinking, Addresses, Way

  Source: nefac.net

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• None of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of being immodest, and acting courageously to bring issues of class- especially radical standpoints – into the discourse of blackness is a gesture of militant defiance, one that runs counter to bourgeois insistence that we think of “money” in particular and class in general as private matters.

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  Running, Thinking, Class

  bell hooks (2012). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.179, Routledge

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• This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men feel the loss. Ultimately, one of the emotional costs of allegiance to patriarchy is to be seen as unworthy of trust. If women and girls in patriarchal culture are taught to see every male, including the males with whom we are intimate, as potential rapists and murderers, then we cannot offer them our trust, and without trust there is no love.

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  Girl, Loss, Men

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

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• The significance of feminist movement (when it is not co-opted by opportunistic, reactionary forces) is that it offers a new ideological meeting ground for the sexes, a space for criticism, struggle, and transformation.

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  Sex, Struggle, Space

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.52, Routledge

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• I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being.

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  Stress, Thinking, Capacity

  "The BK Nation INTERVIEW with bell hooks". Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. February 28, 2014.

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• In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with thoughts and feelings - where we can experience healthy psychological autonomy and can choose to share when we want to. Keeping secrets is usually about power, about hiding and concealing information.

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  Confused, Keeping Secrets, Space

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• I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.

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  Thinking, Impact, Movement

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• Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously.

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  Taken, Class, African American

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.7, Routledge

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• Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in which male domination of women and children stands in the ways of love.

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  Children, Impact, Males

  bell hooks (2018). “All About Love: New Visions”, p.22, HarperCollins

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• What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.

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  People, Goal, Black

  bell hooks (2014). “Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism”, p.5, Routledge

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