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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

You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet; because poetry is beyond hooks and holes. — M.F. Moonzajer

One listened and one remembered. I listened as best I could, but there were no hooks in my head to hang much of it on. — Sheri S. Tepper

Diphthongs are indicated by combinations of hooks and circles. — John Robert Gregg

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

Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the story — Chuck Wendig

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

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

It's the way his pinky hooks with mine, just for a second, before he full-on cups my hand. — Krista Ritchie

The most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain. — Benjamin 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

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

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

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

If you listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one and it all happens in three minutes. — Will.i.am

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

You have to put these hooks in it, you know? You've got to make sure you got all that ear candy in it to get it through the gate. — Mark Ronson

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

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

Gifts are like hooks. — Martial

A mind possessed
by unmade books,
unwritten lines
on empty hooks. — Michael Faudet

It is poetry that changes everything. — Bell Hooks

The little things. Perhaps it is these trivialities I have been writing down in my book, these small hooks on which my whole life is hung. — S.J. Watson

These lines are hooks, I'm fishing unknown seas. — Mark Lawrence

The Friends Thou Hast
And Their Adoption Tried
Grapple Them To Thy Soul
With Hooks Of Steel — William Shakespeare

When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date. — Joshua Foer

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

Everyone hooks up with George Clooney. He's a genuinely cool guy. He's using his powers for good. — William H. Macy

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

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

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

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

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

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

An enlightened entertainer, via story, casts her line into the souls of others, hooks their heart, and pulls their greater potential to the surface. — Derek Rydall

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

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

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

You've got to quit lowering your standards. Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks you, he has to know this is business. — Steve Harvey

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

Patriarchy has no gender. — 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

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

There can be no love without justice. — Bell Hooks

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

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

Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy. — Hakim Bey

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

I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love. — Sylvia Plath

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

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

Nigger-eye
Berries cast dark
Hooks --

Black sweet blood mouthfuls,
Shadows. — Sylvia Plath

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

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

Arin, who had set hooks into her heart and drawn her to him so that she wouldn't see anything but his eyes.
Arin was her enemy — Marie Rutkoski

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

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

The more hooks an idea has, the better it will cling to memory. — Chip Heath

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

Language is also a place of struggle. — Bell Hooks

Threads of power and domination a palimpsest of greed — 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

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

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

Without a doubt,
I must read,
all the books
I've read about.
See the artworks
hung on hooks,
that I have only,
seen in books. — Lang Leav

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

Pigpen hooks his foot around the metal folding chair Eli sat in weeks before and it scrapes against the tiles. — Katie McGarry

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

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

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

There is no politically neutral art. — Bell Hooks

When he smiled, she saw that his mouth was full of little hooks, rows of them, each as small and delicate as a sewing needle. — Joe Hill

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