Bell Hooks Quotes - Page 15

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• Remember, care is a dimension of love, but simply giving care does not mean we are loving.

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  Mean, Giving, Doe

  bell hooks (2018). “All About Love: New Visions”, p.8, HarperCollins

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• Only love can heal the wounds of the past. However, the intensity of our woundedness often leads to a closing of the heart, making it impossible for us to give or receive the love that is
  given to us.

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  Heart, Past, Giving

  bell hooks (2018). “All About Love: New Visions”, p.26, HarperCollins

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• I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.

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  Children, Needs, Able

  "'There’s No Place to Go But Up' — bell hooks and Maya Angelou in conversation". Interview with Maya Angelou, www.lionsroar.com. January 1, 1998.

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• Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.

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  Loneliness, Despair, Causes

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• I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining, come to understand that when black people come together to celebrate and rejoice in black critical thinking, we do so not to exclude or to separate, but to participate more fully in world community. However, we must first be able to dialogue with one another, to give one another subject-to-subject recognition that is an act of resistance that is part of the decolonizing, anti-racist process.

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  Thinking, Expression, Giving

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• Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.

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  Opposites, Abuse, Foundation

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• Today masses of black women in the U.S. refuse to acknowledge that they have much to gain by feminist struggle. They fear feminism. They have stood in place so long that they are afraid to move. They fear change. They fear losing what little they have.

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  Struggle, Moving, Long

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• A central tenet of modern feminist thought has been the assertion that "all women are oppressed." This assertion implies that women share a common lot, that factors like class, race, religion, sexual preference, etc. do not create a diversity of experience that determines the extent to which sexism will be an oppressive force in the lives of individual women.

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  Race, Class, Diversity

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.5, Routledge

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• I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

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  Book, Issues, Racism

  "A chat with the Author of "All About Love: New Visions"". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. February 17, 2000.

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• I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.

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  Thinking, Numbers, People

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• I think this is often misunderstood in the West, where people feel that there can be no justice unless everything is the same. This is part of why I feel we have to relearn how we think about love, because we think about love so much in terms of the self.

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  Love Is, Thinking, Self

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

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• I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.

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  Tired, Men, People

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• A very hurting thing for Black Americans - to feel that we can't love our enemies. People forget what a great tradition we have as African-Americans in the practice of forgiveness and compassion. And if we neglect that tradition, we suffer.

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  Hurt, Compassion, Practice

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

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• The fact is that it was bourgeois white feminism that I was reacting against when I stood in my first women's studies classes and said, "Black women have always worked."

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  Class, White, Black

  "Challenging Capitalism and Patriarchy: An Interview with Bell Hooks". Third World Viewpoint Interview, espressostalinist.com. July 15, 2013.

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• I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.

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  Self Esteem, Thinking, People

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• I feel sad that we have allowed these knee-jerk feminists who want to act like it's a struggle against men...but again that's the least politically developed strand of feminism.

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  Struggle, Men, Feminist

  "Challenging Capitalism and Patriarchy: An Interview with Bell Hooks". Third World Viewpoint Interview, espressostalinist.com. July 15, 2013.

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• Solidarity is not the same as support. To experience solidarity, we must have a community of interests, shared beliefs and goals around which to unite, to build Sisterhood. Support can be occasional. It can be given and just as easily withdrawn. Solidarity requires sustained, ongoing commitment.

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  Commitment, Sisterhood, Goal

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.67, Routledge

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• What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force.

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  Believe, Men, Ignorant

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• Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us.

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  Play, Feminism, Scams

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• Sexism has always been a political stance mediating social domination, enabling white men and black men to share a common sensibility about sex roles and the importance of male domination.

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  Sex, Men, White Man

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• Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting and attended similar schools as "not black enough." ...Our concept of black experience has been too narrow and constricting.

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  Teaching, School, White

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.51, Routledge

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• When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise. They tell us paradise is our home and love our true destiny.

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  Home, Angel, Destiny

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• Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.

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  Mean, Giving, Important

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• . . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression.

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  Pain, Stress, Play

  bell hooks, Cornel West (2016). “Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life”, p.110, Routledge

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• Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity.

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  Acceptance, Men, Racism

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.89, Routledge

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