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Bell Hooks

Bell Hooks

American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins)

Lived from: 1952 - 2021

Category: Politics | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 25 september 1952 Died: 15 december 2021

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  • The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. Until we make this distinction clear, men will continue to fear that any critique of patriarchy represents a threat.
    The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
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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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  • The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution. --From Women, Art, and Society: Fourth Edition (2007) by Whitney Chadwick
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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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  • 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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  • The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.
    Resisting Representations Outlaw Culture
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  • The more Lil' Kim distorted her natural beauty to become a cartoonlike caricature of whiteness, the larger her success. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
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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.
    Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations
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  • The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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  • The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others.
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  • There is light in darkness, you just have to find it.
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  • There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.
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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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  • To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.
    Ending Racism Killing Rage
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  • Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.
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  • Usually, when people talk about the strength of black women.... they ignore the reality that to be strong in the face of oppression is not the same as overcoming oppression, that endurance is not to be confused with transformation.
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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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  • 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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  • What nationalist educators often fail to recognize is that merely being taught by teachers who are black has not and will not solve the problem if the teachers have been socialized to internalize racist thinking. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
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  • What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
    Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom (2013)
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