Bell Hooks Quotes - Page 14

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• We know that so much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group.

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  War, Groups, Resources

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• I don't have issues around how I'm identified.

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  Issues

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• Even when people capitalize my name, I don't freak out, even though that would not be my choice.

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  Names, People, Choices

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• You have to trust that if you are calling my name in a way that is offensive to me, I'm going to share it with you. But you also have to know what your feelings are behind calling me "bell."

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  Names, Feelings, Calling

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• When the feminist movement was at its zenith in the late 60's and early 70's, there was a lot of moving away from the idea of the person. It was: let's talk about the ideas behind the work, and the people matter less. It was kind of a gimmicky thing, but lots of feminist women were doing it. Many of us took the names of our female ancestors - bell hooks is my maternal great grandmother - to honor them and debunk the notion that we were these unique, exceptional women. We wanted to say, actually, we were the products of the women who'd gone before us.

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  Moving, Grandmother, Unique

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• I think part of Western metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other.

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  Thinking, Metaphysical, Western

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• Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

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  Moving, Passing Away, Moments

  "Bell Hooks and John Perry Barlow talk “prana in cyberspace”". Interview with John Perry Barlow, www.lionsroar.com. 1995.

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• I think we are obsessed in the U.S. with the personal, in ways that blind us to more important issues of life. I just think if we could take all the obsession with the personal (inaudible), and personal judgment and have people be concerned about the environment, what a different world we would live in.

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  Thinking, Issues, People

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• We have to look at the substance of something rather than the shadow.

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  Shadow, Substance, Looks

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• Right now, for many Americans, class is being foregrounded like never before because of the economic situation. It doesn't mean that race doesn't matter, or gender doesn't matter, but it means that right now in many people's lives, in the lives of my own family members, people are losing jobs, insurance.

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  Jobs, Mean, Race

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• I gather together the dreams, fantasies, experiences that preoccupied me as a girl, that stay with me and appear and reappear in different shapes and forms in all my work. Without telling everything that happened, they document all that remains most vivid.

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  Girl, Dream, Together

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• We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.

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  Beautiful, Thinking, Space

  "Bell Hooks talks to John Perry Barlow". www.lionsroar.com. September 1, 1995.

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• Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.

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  Use, Shapes, Wells

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• None of us, irrespective of our sexual preference and/or practice, imagine that we can have an intimate relationship with a partner and always have seamless harmony. Indeed, most of us assume that once the “honeymoon” period is over differences will emerge and conflicts will happen. Positively, we also assume that we will be “safe“ in those moments; that even if voices are raised and emotions expressed are intense, there will not be and should not be any abuse or any reason to be unsafe, and that the will to connect and communicate will prevail.

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  Voice, Differences, Intimate Relationships

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom”, p.75, Routledge

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• Feminist education — the feminist classroom — is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there is visible acknowledgment of the union of theory and practice, where we work together as teachers and students to overcome the estrangement and alienation that have become so much the norm in the contemporary university.

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  Teacher, Struggle, Practice

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.63, Routledge

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• My focus has always been on the work - that work being critical thinking and writing. I am always doing that. That's where I am, wherever I am. Critical thinking and writing as my heartbeat.

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  Writing, Thinking, Focus

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

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• It's really important to have life strategies and part of that is sort of knowing where you want to go so you can have a map that helps you to get there. And the traditional way tells us oh we get into school and someone else advises us, helps us, but that often does not work for African Americans female and male. Because what works for the dominant culture often does not work for us.

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  School, Knowing, African American

  Interview with Pierce Freelon, blackademics.org. October, 2006.

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• Radical militant feminist believes that women of color and Black women in particular have written the cutting edge theory and really were the individuals who exploded feminist theory into the directions that has made it more powerful. So I see us as the leaders not just of Black people and Black women in terms of feminism but in terms of the movement as a whole.

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  Powerful, Believe, Cutting

  "October 2006 Interview: Bell Hooks". Interview with Pierce Freelon, blackademics.org. October 2006.

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• Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact with a wider world.

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  Mean, Community, Black

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• I'm tired of the naked, raped, beaten black woman body. I want to see an image of black femaleness that alters our universe in some way.

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  Leadership, Wisdom, Tired

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• To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.

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  Determination, Self, Black

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

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• A distinction must be made between that writing which enables us to hold on to life even as we are clinging to old hurts and wounds and that writing which offers to us a space where we are able to confront reality in such a way that we live more fully. Such writing is not an anchor that we mistakenly cling to so as not to drown. It is writing that truly rescues, that enables us to reach the shore, to recover.

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  Hurt, Writing, Reality

  bell hooks (2013). “remembered rapture: the writer at work”, p.11, Henry Holt and Company

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• Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become the place where revolutionary feminist thought and feminist activism are submerged or made secondary to the goals of academic careerism

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  Goal, Feminist, Way

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.63, Routledge

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• Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.

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  Thinking, Justice, Feminist

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.71, Routledge

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• Knowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair.

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  Fall, Love Is, Knowing Love

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