bell hooks Quotes
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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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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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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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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I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
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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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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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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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I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words.
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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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For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
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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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There is a lushness to how my mind works.
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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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All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.
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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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What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.
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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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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that's feminism.
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I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.
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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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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.