bell hooks Quotes

bell hooks

Profession : Critic

Birth : September 25, 1952

I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and just smile at everyone who walked by. Like, 'Please take me with you!'

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No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.

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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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To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.

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

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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

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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.

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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.

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Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.

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These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.

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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits.

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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

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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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The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

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When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.

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Live simply so that others may simply live.

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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.

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I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.

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There is a lushness to how my mind works.

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