Bell Hooks Quotes - Page 13

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• One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness – in communities, in institutions, among friends.

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  Differences, Support, Community

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• Even the wealthiest professional woman can be "brought down" by being in a relationship where she longs to be loved and is consistently lied to. To the degree that she trusts her male companion, lying and other forms of betrayal will most likely shatter her self-confidence and self-esteem.

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  Betrayal, Self Esteem, Lying

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• Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.

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  Heart, Lifetime, Graves

  "Fools for love" by Bell Hooks, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2000.

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• Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.

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  Media, Black, Would Be

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• I can be critical of Beyoncé and yet also appreciate aspects of her power and representation. I can especially critique the way white supremacist aesthetics more often than not informs her presentation of self and yet still acknowledge her beauty.

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  Self, White, Appreciate

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• I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong.

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  Writing, Names, People

  Source: nefac.net

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• If anything I think postmodernism has the least impact on my work.

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  Thinking, Impact, Postmodernism

  Source: nefac.net

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• My work is mostly influenced by the concrete circumstances of our daily lives.

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  Daily Life, Circumstances, Concrete

  Source: nefac.net

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• Clearly, commitment is a necessary component for creating loving relationships.

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  Commitment, Creating, Loving Relationships

  Facebook post, www.facebook.com. April 8, 2016.

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• Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.

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  Gone, Anarchist, Grain

  Source: nefac.net

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• I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.

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  White, Black, Students

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• I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place.

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  Girl, Travel, Moving

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• It's interesting to look at all the aspects where everyday Americans, many of whom are not college educated, are thinking deeply now about our economic structure.

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  College, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: nefac.net

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• When we concentrate on photography, we make it possible to see the walls of photographs in black homes as a critical intervention, a disruption of white control over black images.

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  Photography, Wall, Home

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• The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

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  Political, Movement, Speech

  bell hooks (2012). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.75, Routledge

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• To the extent that we live in a postmodern world and it shapes the concrete circumstances of our daily lives, I would say postmodernism affects my work or influences my work.

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  World, Shapes, Influence

  Source: nefac.net

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• When I think about the auto-industry and how it was one of the industries that brought all of these black men from the South to Michigan and other places to make more money than they could ever make in the cotton fields or the agricultural world of the South... what's happening now is all of that is closing down, and we know that it's going to reopen in Southern places, focusing on Mexican and other migrant workers to come and work cheaply and get none of the benefits.

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  Men, Thinking, Southern

  Source: nefac.net

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• Is it more important that you, as a white male, read my work and learn from it, or what you call me? I think it's more important that you read my work, reflect on it, and allow it to transform your life and your thinking in some way.

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  Thinking, White, Important

  Source: nefac.net

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• I was teasing my brother that he was penniless, homeless, jobless. Right now in his life, racism isn't the central highlighting force: it's the world of work and economics. It doesn't mean that he isn't influenced by racism, but when he wakes up in the morning the thing that's driving his world is really issues of class, economics and power as they articulate themselves.

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  Morning, Brother, Mean

  Source: nefac.net

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• I guess I wish we could talk about: what does it mean to have a politics of intersectionality that also privileges what form of domination is most oppressing us at a given moment in time.

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  Mean, Wish, Doe

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• Sadly, anarchy has gotten such a bad name. We don't really see much evidence of it because people associate it with reckless abandon.

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  Names, People, Anarchy

  Source: nefac.net

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• I think we have to talk about educating the people for critical consciousness about what anarchy is.

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  Thinking, People, Anarchy

  Source: nefac.net

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• I think it's crazy for us to think that people don't understand what's being foregrounded in their lives at a given point in time.

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  Crazy, Thinking, People

  Source: nefac.net

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• Let's face it, war in its essence is another form of capitalism.

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  War, Essence, Faces

  Source: nefac.net

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• Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them.

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  War, People, Rich

  Source: nefac.net

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