Bell Hooks Quotes - Page 9

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• It's interesting--the way in which one has to balance life--because you have to know when to let go and when to pull back.... There's always some liminal (as opposed to subliminal) space in between which is harder to inhabit because it never feels as safe as moving from one extreme to another.

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  Life, Letting Go, Moving

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• feminism is for everybody

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  Motivational, Feminism

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

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• It is no accident that this homeplace, as fragile and as transitional as it may be, a makeshift shed, a small bit of earth where one rests, is always subject to violation and destruction. For when a people no longer have the space to construct homeplace, we cannot build a meaningful community of resistance.

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  Meaningful, Women, Home

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.61, Routledge

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• My grief was a heavy, despairing sadness caused by parting from a companion of many years but, more important, it was a despair rooted in the fear that love did not exist, could not be
  found. And even if it were lurking somewhere, I might never know it in my lifetime. It had become hard for me to continue to believe in love's promise when everywhere I turned the
  enchantment of power of the terror of fear overshadowed the will to love.

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  Believe, Grief, Sadness

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• To me, a woman can't be a feminist just because she is a woman. She is a feminist because she begins to divest herself of sexist ways of thinking and revolutionizes her consciousness.

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  Thinking, Feminist, Way

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

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• We don't really live in a culture that loves boys or loves children, and we don't encourage boys to be whole.

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  Children, Boys, Culture

  Source: nefac.net

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• Patriarchy has no gender.

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  Gender, Patriarchy

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom”, p.142, Routledge

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• It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

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  Fun, Women, Moving

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

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• Time and time again when I talk to individuals about approaching love with will and intentionality, I hear the fear expressed that this will bring an end to romance. This is simply not so. Approaching romantic love from foundation of care, knowledge, and respect actually intensifies romance

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  Romantic Love, Romance, Foundation

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• Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world stops affirming us, that we are seen as unlovable.

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  Girl, Children, Independent

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• Within the new self-help books for women, patriarachy and male domination are rarely identified as forces that lead to the oppression, exploitation, and domination of women. Instead, these books suggest that individual relationships between men and women can be changed solely by women making the right choices.

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  Book, Men, Self

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.45, Routledge

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• Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.

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  Heart, People, Cynical

  "All About Love: New Visions". Book by Nell Hooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2000.

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• ..Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one’s own use - need not be synonymous with exploitation. This is especially true of cultural appropriation. The “use” one makes of what is appropriated is the crucial factor.

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  Needs, Use, Process

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• If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.

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  Littles, Chance, Language

  Bell Hooks (1989). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.78, South End Press

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• Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.

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  Would Be, Definitions, How To Love

  bell hooks (2018). “All About Love: New Visions”, p.4, HarperCollins

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• But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.

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  Love Is, Verbs, Nouns

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

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• Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

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  Spiritual, Teacher, Buddhism

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• Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.

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  World, Way, Changing The World

  Bell Hooks (2009). “Reel to Real: Race, Class and Sex at the Movies”, p.7, Routledge

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• When women and men understand that working to eradicate patriarchal domination is a struggle rooted in the longing to make a world where everyone can live fully and freely, then we know our work to be a gesture of love. Let us draw upon that love to heighten our awareness, deepen our compassion, intensify our courage and strengthen our commitment.

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  Struggle, Commitment, Compassion

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.39, Routledge

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• They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as patriarchs, by other men, including white men. Yet they could not assume this position if black women were not willing to conform to prevailing sexist gender norms. Many black women who has endured white-supremacist patriarchal domination during slavery did not want to be dominated by black men after manumission.

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  Men, White Man, Black

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• I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.

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  Believe, Two, Healthy

  bell hooks, Cornel West (2016). “Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life”, p.120, Routledge

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• Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse.

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  Abuse, Definitions, Definition Of Love

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

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• The greater our commitment, the more likely our love will last.

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  Commitment, Our Love, Lasts

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

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• While privacy strengthens all our bonds, secrecy weakens and damages connection. Lerner points out that we do not usually "know the emotional costs of keeping a secret" until the truth is disclosed. Usually, secrecy involves lying. And lying is always the setting for potential betrayal and violation of trust.

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  Betrayal, Lying, Emotional

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• Feminism as a political movement has to specifically address the needs of men in their struggle to revolutionize their consciousness.

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  Struggle, Men, Political

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

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