Bell Hooks Quotes
The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community.
as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves
Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.
If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.
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.
I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being.
We all may have prejudices, but we're not all part of a system that reinforces, reinvents and reaffirms itself every day of our lives, systemically.
...move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective as well as individual change.
Feminism as a political movement has to specifically address the needs of men in their struggle to revolutionize their consciousness.
It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.
Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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.
It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect.
Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind.
As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing.
Part of the heart of anarchy is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking about our realities. Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.
We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.
I guess I wish we could talk about: what does it mean to have a politics of intersectionality that also privileges what form of domination is most oppressing us at a given moment in time.
Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact with a wider world.
If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.
Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.
Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise. They tell us paradise is our home and love our true destiny.
Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.
We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.
Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.
I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.
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.
... we need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously.
Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth.
Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love
To me, a woman can't be a feminist just because she is a woman. She is a feminist because she begins to divest herself of sexist ways of thinking and revolutionizes her consciousness.
We don't really live in a culture that loves boys or loves children, and we don't encourage boys to be whole.
Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world stops affirming us, that we are seen as unlovable.
