bell hooks Quotes

bell hooks

Profession : Critic

Birth : September 25, 1952

I love my family, even as I critique their dysfunctionalities.

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A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I'm committed to loving you, then it's not possible for me to 'fall out of love.'

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I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words.

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I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.

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Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.

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The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of people and that one did not have to continue the personal consciousness-raising and changing of one's viewpoint.

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I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place.

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

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The ethic of liberal individualism has so deeply permeated the psyches of blacks... of all classes that we have little support for a political ethic of communalism that promotes the sharing of resources.

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Using pseudonyms was such a part of the early feminist movement. We didn't want to have this star system. We wanted attention on the ideas, not the persona of the writer.

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Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.

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We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.

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

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Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.

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Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.

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Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.

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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

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

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My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.

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

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