bell hooks Quotes

bell hooks

Profession : Critic

Birth : September 25, 1952

I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.

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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

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In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we have no time to love.

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In this culture, the phrase 'black woman' is not synonymous with 'tender,' or 'gentle.' It's as if those words couldn't possibly speak to the reality of black females.

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I don't think you can hate anything that you know intimately. There is no fine line separating love from hate because there's a deep chasm separating love from hate.

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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.

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I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.

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

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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.

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

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

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Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.

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I can be standing in Barneys with my coat and purse and my selections, and some white woman will say, 'Can you get this in my size?' What she sees is a black woman, and her service button goes off.

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Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

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Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?

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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

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

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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.

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I told my parents when I was 12 I'd be a writer.

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

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