Bell Hooks Quotes - Page 2

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• Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to process all our issues, to cope with differences and conflict while staying connected.

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  Relationship, Differences, Issues

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• Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.

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  Honesty, Insightful, Foundation

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

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• Patriarchy, like any system of domination (for example, racism), relies on socializing everyone to believe that in all human relations there is an inferior and a superior party, one person is strong, the other weak, and that it is therefore natural for the powerful to rule over the powerless. To those who support patriarchal thinking, maintaining power and control is acceptable by whatever means.

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  Strong, Powerful, Party

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• I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that is redemptive, full of hope and possibility. Not this “In order to love you, I must make you something else”. That’s what domination is all about, that in order to be close to you, I must possess you, remake and recast you.

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  Love, Order, Differences

  Bell Hooks (1996). “Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies”, p.122, Psychology Press

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• Love is an action, never simply a feeling.

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  Love Is, Feelings, Action

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• Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

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  Struggle, Political, Despair

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• To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination.

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  Community, Way, Awareness

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope”, p.36, Routledge

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• The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others.

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  Girl, Children, Order

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• In an ideal world we would all learn in childhood to love ourselves. We would grow, being secure in our worth and value, spreading love wherever we went, letting our light shine. If we did not learn self-love in our youth, there is still hope. The light of love is always in us, no matter how cold the flame. It is always present, waiting for the spark to ignite, waiting for the heart to awaken and call us back to the first memory of being the life force inside a dark place waiting to be born - waiting to see the light.

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  Memories, Heart, Dark

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• Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.

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  Real, Believe, Voice

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• When we are more energized by the practice of blaming than we are by efforts to create transformation, we not only cannot find relief from suffering, we are creating the conditions that help keep us stuck in the status quo

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  Practice, Creating, Effort

  Bell Hooks (2013). “Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice”, p.29, Routledge

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• If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.

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  Beloved Community, Justice, Want

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• ..Critically intervene in a way that challenges and changes.

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  Challenges, Way

  Bell Hooks (2009). “Reel to Real: Race, Class and Sex at the Movies”, p.12, Routledge

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• If I were really asked to define myself, I wouldn’t start with race; I wouldn’t start with blackness; I wouldn’t start with gender; I wouldn’t start with feminism. I would start with stripping down to what fundamentally informs my life, which is that I’m a seeker on the path. I think of feminism, and I think of anti-racist struggles as part of it. But where I stand spiritually is, steadfastly, on a path about love.

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  Struggle, Thinking, Race

  "Women’s Rights and Human Rights" by Judi Jennings, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2009.

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• If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege.

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  Beloved Community, Differences, Justice

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• For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

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  Forgiveness, Believe, Compassion

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• One of the things that we must do as teachers is twirl around and around, and find out what works with the situation that we're in. Our models might not work. And that twirling, changing, is part of the empowerment.

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  Teacher, Empowerment, Might

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• As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.

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  Sisterhood, Race, Class

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.27, Routledge

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• Only grown-ups think that the things children say come out of nowhere. We know they come from the deepest parts of ourselves.

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  Children, Thinking, Knows

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• Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.

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  Sexism, Powerless

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.95, Routledge

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• We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.

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  Media, White, Culture

  bell hooks, Amalia Mesa-Bains (2017). “Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism”, p.66, Routledge

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• You are not going to destroy this imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy by creating your own version of it.

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  White, Creating, Capitalist

  "bell hooks on Beyoncé: She Is a ‘Terrorist’ Because of Her ‘Impact On Young Girls’" by Britni Danielle, clutchmagonline.com. May 8, 2014.

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• Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling.

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  Dream, Real, Commitment

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• Being oppressed means the absence of choices

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  Mean, Choices, Absence

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.22, Routledge

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• Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.

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  Children, Passion, Learning

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom”, p.13, Routledge

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