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

Nature as chameleon — Bell Hooks

I think our culture doesn't recognize passion, because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries. — Bell Hooks

Being loving does not mean we will not be betrayed. Love helps up face betrayal without losing heart. And it renews our spirit so we can love again. — Bell Hooks

All backwoods folks were poor by material standards; they knew how to make do. They were not wanting to tame the wildness, in themselves or nature. — Bell Hooks

True resistance begins with people confronting pain ... and wanting to do something to change it. — Bell Hooks

making soil soup deep — Bell Hooks

Who we are as African-Americans, as black folks in the diaspora, our cultural destiny, has been shaped by both the enslaved and the free. — Bell Hooks

A good teacher is someone who can help you to get back to a teacher within. — Bell Hooks

I knew that I wanted to follow their example and become a teacher who would help students become self-directed learners. — Bell Hooks

Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness. — Bell Hooks

If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions. — Bell Hooks

When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
— Bell Hooks

Ritically intervene in a way that challenges and changes. — Bell Hooks

Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform. — Bell Hooks

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust. — Bell Hooks

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

Shame makes self-acceptance and self-love impossible. — Bell Hooks

In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable. — Bell Hooks

A love ethic presupposes that everyone has the right to be free, to live fully and well. — Bell Hooks

Love is an action, never simply a feeling. — Bell Hooks

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence. — Bell Hooks

No woman has ever written enough. — Bell Hooks

Love is profoundly political. Our deepest revolution will come when we understand this truth. — Bell Hooks

Feminism is not anti- male, Feminism is anti-sexism — Bell Hooks

Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that's feminism. — Bell Hooks

education was about the practice of freedom. — Bell Hooks

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

Male fantasy is seen as something that can create reality, whereas female fantasy is regarded as pure escape. — Bell Hooks

The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution. — Bell Hooks

I would also say that, in practice, many more Americans are anarchists than would ever use that term. — Bell Hooks

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

For many men the moment of violent connection may be the only intimacy, the only attainable closeness, the only space where the agony is released. — Bell Hooks

Valuing ourselves rightly means we understand love to be the only foundation of being that will sustain us in both times of lack and times of plenty — Bell Hooks

There is a lushness to how my mind works. — Bell Hooks

The fear of being alone, or of being unloved, had caused women of all races to passively accept sexism and sexist oppression. — Bell Hooks

Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims. — Bell Hooks

What we cannot imagine cannot come into being. — Bell Hooks

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. — Bell Hooks

To maintain and satisfy greed, one must support domination. And the world of domination is always a world without love. — Bell Hooks

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
- Bell Hooks — Win Quier

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

Sexual promiscuity and sexual liberation were not one and the same. — Bell Hooks

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. — Bell Hooks

Love and abuse cannot co-exist. — Bell Hooks

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. — Bell Hooks

When we are loving, we openly and honestly express care, affection, responsibility, respect, commitment, and trust. — Bell Hooks

I love my family, even as I critique their dysfunctionalities. — Bell Hooks

I'm terrified of saying the wrong thing on stage with bell hooks. — Laverne Cox

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

Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously. — Bell Hooks

You are not going to destroy this imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy by creating your own version of it, — Bell Hooks

First and foremost feminist movement urged females to no longer see ourselves and our bodies as the property of men. — Bell Hooks

Emotionally shut-down black males are often represented as epitomizing desirable masculinity. — Bell Hooks

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

Shahrazad Ali's The Blackman's Guide to Understanding the Blackwoman. — Bell Hooks

It really fascinates me what white people are allowed to write about. — Bell Hooks

Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal. — Bell Hooks

When we love children, we acknowledge by our every action that they are not property, that they have rights - that we respect and uphold their rights. — Bell Hooks

All awakening to love is spiritual awakening — Bell Hooks

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

Language is also a place of struggle. — Bell Hooks

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

The world demands that you work for it, make families, provide, take no time to listen to your own heart beating. — Bell Hooks

To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality. — Bell Hooks

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

Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune. — Bell Hooks

You must have courage to love, you have to have a profound will to do what is right to love, and it does not come easy. — Bell Hooks

They have the right to fall when life comes to an end to move in harmony with fate — Bell Hooks

Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. — Bell Hooks

If we were constantly remembering that love is as love does, we would not use the word in a manner that devalues and degrades it's meaning. — Bell Hooks

The people I love, I'm committed to loving for the rest of my life. — Bell Hooks

Threads of power and domination a palimpsest of greed — Bell Hooks

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

There is no politically neutral art. — Bell Hooks

The heart of justice is truth telling, seeing ourselves and the world the way it is rather than the way we want to be. — Bell Hooks

Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do women want to be equal to? — Bell Hooks

Spirituality and spiritual life gives us the strength to love. — Bell Hooks

Profound changes in the way we think and act must take place if we are to create a loving culture. — Bell Hooks

I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children. — Bell Hooks

I think the truth is that finding ourselves brings more excitement and well-being than anything romance has to offer, and somewhere we know that. — Bell Hooks

Secrets find a way out in sleep ... It is the place where there is no pretense. — Bell Hooks

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

The working-class black Southern Christian culture I come from still nurtures me, and I mean directly, daily. — Bell Hooks

I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously. — Bell Hooks

The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it's to imagine what is possible. — Bell Hooks

The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy — Bell Hooks

Indeed, all the great movements for social justice in our society have strongly emphasized a love ethic. — Bell Hooks

It is poetry that changes everything. — Bell Hooks

There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few. — Bell Hooks

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

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control. — Bell Hooks

There can be no love without justice. — Bell Hooks

You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change. — Bell Hooks

The principle of equality, which is at the core of democratic values, has very little meaning in a world in which global oligarchy is taking over. — Bell Hooks

Patriarchy has no gender. — Bell Hooks

Without confronting internalized sexism women
who picked up the feminist banner often betrayed the cause in their
interactions with other women. — Bell Hooks

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. — Bell Hooks

My belief that God is love, that love is everything
our true destiny
sustains me. — Bell Hooks

Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is. — Bell Hooks