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Explore our hand-picked selection of 379 inspiring quotes by Bell Hooks.

About Bell Hooks

  • Born: September 25, 1952
  • Occupation: Author
    • Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, women's studies can easily become the place where revolutionary feminist thought and feminist activism are submerged or made secondary to the goals of academic careerism
    Goal Feminist Way
    Abuse and neglect negate love. care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. no one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.
    Opposites Abuse Foundation
    What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. they don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force.
    Believe Men Ignorant
    Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and i think this has been a very negative thing. i know that i have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.
    Art Book Writing
    When i began to think deeply about the metaphysics of love i talked with everyone around me about it. i talked to large audiences and even had wee one-on-one conversations with children about the way they think about love. i talked about love in every state, everywhere i traveled.
    Children Thinking Way
    I have been contemplating the place and meaning of love in our lives and culture for years. when a subject attracts my intellectual and emotional imagination, i am long to observe it from all angles, to know it inside and out.
    Emotional Years Imagination
    What's so amazing about this historical moment is that it is bringing class to the fore and we have to think about the nature of work and hierarchy.
    Thinking Class Historical
    Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.
    Thinking Justice Feminist
    One difference with the political writings, whether about feminism or class, is that the intent is to change how people think of a certain political reality; whereas with cultural criticism, the goal is to illuminate something that is already there.
    Writing Thinking Reality
    To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. but to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone. home was the place where i was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what i should be. school was the place where i could forget that self and, through ideas, reinvent myself.
    Home School Self
    A distinction must be made between that writing which enables us to hold on to life even as we are clinging to old hurts and wounds and that writing which offers to us a space where we are able to confront reality in such a way that we live more fully. such writing is not an anchor that we mistakenly cling to so as not to drown. it is writing that truly rescues, that enables us to reach the shore, to recover.
    Hurt Writing Reality
    Even the wealthiest professional woman can be "brought down" by being in a relationship where she longs to be loved and is consistently lied to. to the degree that she trusts her male companion, lying and other forms of betrayal will most likely shatter her self-confidence and self-esteem.
    Betrayal Self Esteem Lying
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