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Bell Hooks Quote: “When we are more energized by the practice of blaming than we are by efforts to create transformation, we not only cannot find relief from suffering, we are creating the conditions that help keep us stuck in the status quo.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “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.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “It is crucial for the future of the Black liberation struggle that we remain ever mindful that ours is a shared struggle, that we are each other’s fate.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “The men in my life have always been the folks who are wary of using the word ‘love’ lightly. They are wary because they believe women make too much of love. And they know that what we think love means is not always what they believe it means. Our confusion about what we mean when we use the word ‘love’ is the source of our difficulty in loving. If our society had a commonly held understanding of the meaning of love, the act of loving would not be so mystifying.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Women talk about love. From girlhood on, we learn that conversations about love are a gendered narrative, a female subject... Femaleness in patriarchal culture marks us from the very beginning as unworthy or not as worthy, and it should come as no surprise that we learn to worry most as girls, as women, about whether we are worthy of love.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Maintaining connections with family and community across class boundaries demands more than just summary recall of where one’s roots are, where one comes from. It requires knowing, naming, and being ever-mindful of those aspects of one’s past that have enabled and do enable one’s self-development in the present, that sustain and support, that enrich. One must also honestly confront barriers that do exist, aspects of that past that do diminish.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Action, like a sacrament, is the visible form of an invisible spirit, an outward manifestation of an inward power.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “We use the word love in such a sloppy way that it can mean almost nothing or absolutely everything.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Many black men who express the greatest hostility toward the white male power structure are often eager to gain access to that power. Their expressions of rage and anger are less a critique of the white male patriarchal social order and more a reaction against the fact that they have not been allowed full participation in the power game.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “The idealized woman becomes property, symbol, and ornament; she is stripped of her essential human qualities. The devalued woman becomes a different kind of object; she is the spittoon in which men release their negative anti-woman feelings.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “We knew that there could no real sisterhood between white women and women of color if white women were not able to divest of white supremacy, if feminist movement were not fundamentally anti-racist.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “By championing hedonistic consumerism and encouraging individuals of all classes to believe that ownership of a particular object mediated the realities of class, mass media created a new image of the rich.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “To love somebody is not just a strong feeling – it’s a decision, it’s a judgement, it’s a promise.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love. It is impossible to nurture one’s own or another’s spiritual growth when the core of one’s being and identity is shrouded in secrecy and lies. Trusting that another person always intends your good, having a core foundation of loving practice, cannot exist within a context of deception.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “The fact is that it was bourgeois white feminism that I was reacting against when I stood in my first women’s studies classes and said, “Black women have always worked.””
Bell Hooks Quote: “When we are loving, we openly and honestly express care, affection, responsibility, respect, commitment, and trust.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “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.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “When women with class power opportunistically use a feminist platform while undermining feminist politics that helps keep in place a patriarchal system that will ultimately re-subordinate them, they do not just betray feminism; they betray themselves.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “It is poetry that changes everything.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “It is my deep belief that in talking about the past, in understanding the things that have happened to us we can heal and go forward. Some people believe that it is best to put the past behind you, to never speak about the events that have happened that have hurt or wounded us, and this is their way of coping – but coping is not healing. By confronting the past without shame we are free of its hold on us.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Women will only be truly sexually liberated when we arrive at a place where we can see ourselves as having sexual value and agency irrespective of whether of not we are the objects of male desire.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “The mutual practice of giving and receiving is an everyday ritual when we know true love.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in which male domination of women and children stands in the ways of love.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Boys need healthy self-esteem. They need love. And a wise and loving feminist politics can provide the only foundation to save the lives of male children. Patriarchy will not heal them.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Lies may make people feel better, but they do not help them to know love.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “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.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Usually, fundamentalists, be they Christian, Muslim, or any faith, shape and interpret religious thought to make it conform to and legitimize a conservative status quo. Fundamentalist thinkers use religion to justify supporting imperialism, militarism, sexism, racism, homophobia. They deny the unifying message of love that is at the heart of every major religious tradition.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Whether they regard themselves as pro- or antifeminist, most women want men to do more of the emotional work in relationships. And most men, even those who wholeheartedly support gender equality in the workforce, still believe that emotional work is female labor. Most men continue to uphold the sexist decree that emotions have no place in the work world and that emotional labor at home should be done by females.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “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.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “We must live by the fundamental, dialectical principle that progress comes only from struggling to resolve contradictions.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “To maintain and satisfy greed, one must support domination. And the world of domination is always a world without love.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Addressing the economic plight of women may ultimately be the feminist platform that draws a collective response. It may well become the place of collective organizing, the common ground, the issue that unites all women.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “We fail at romantic love when we have not learned the art of loving. It’s as simple as that. Often we confuse perfect passion with perfect love.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “For how does one overthrow, change or even challenge a system that you have been taught to admire, to love, to believe in?”
Bell Hooks Quote: “To fulfill that mission, my teachers made sure they “knew” us. They knew our parents, our economic status, where we worshipped, what our homes were like, and how we were treated in the family.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Given the changing realities of class in our nation, widening gaps between the rich and poor, and the continued feminization of poverty, we desperately need a mass-based radical feminist movement that can build on the strength of the past, including the positive gains generated by reforms, while offering meaningful interrogation of existing feminist theory that was simply wrongminded while offering us new strategies.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Our cultural obsession with death consumes energy that could be given to the art of loving.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Today small boys and young men are daily inundated with a poisonous pedagogy that supports male violence and male domination, that teaches boys that unchecked violence is acceptable, that teaches them to disrespect and hate women.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Until black people, and our allies in love and struggle, become militant about how we are represented on television, in movies, and in books, we will not see imaginative work that offers images of black characters who love. If love is not present in our imaginations, it will not be there in our lives.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “They persist in our daily life and they undermine our capacity to live fully and joyously. They even prevent us from participating in organized collective struggle aimed at ending domination and transforming society.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Failure to examine the victimization of men keeps us from understanding maleness, from uncovering the space of connection that might lead more men to seek feminist transformation.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Young girls often feel strong, courageous, highly creative, and powerful until they begin to receive undermining sexist messages that encourage them to conform to conventional notions of femininity. To conform they have to give up power.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “True love is a different story. When it happens, individuals usually feel in touch with each other’s core identity. Embarking on such a relationship is frightening precisely because we feel there is no place to hide. We are known. All the ecstasy that we feel emerges as this love nurtures us and challenges us to grow and transform.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Many women cannot hear male pain about love because it sounds like an indictment of female failure.”
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