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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
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
— Bell Hooks
Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.
— 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Indeed, all the great movements for social justice in our society have strongly emphasized a love ethic.
— 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
Arin was her enemy — Marie Rutkoski
You are not going to destroy this imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy by creating your own version of it,
— Bell Hooks
Language is also a place of struggle.
— 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
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
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
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
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
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