bell hooks Quotes
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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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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 really fascinates me what white people are allowed to write about.
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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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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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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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The working-class black Southern Christian culture I come from still nurtures me, and I mean directly, daily.
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I told my parents when I was 12 I'd be a writer.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits.
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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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Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.
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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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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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These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.
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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'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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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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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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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.