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Bell Hooks Quote: “While emotional needs are difficult, and often are impossible to satisfy, material desires are easier to fulfill.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “To take the inherent positive sexuality of males and turn it into violence is the patriarchal crime that is perpetuated against the male body, a crime that masses of men have yet to possess the strength to report.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “There seems to be a fear that if men are raised to be people of integrity, people who can love, they will be unable to be forceful and act violently if needed... We see that females that are raised with the traits any person of integrity embodies can act with tenderness, with assertiveness, and with aggression if and when aggression is needed.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Throughout American history, the racial imperialism of whites has supported the custom of scholars using the term “women” even if they are referring solely to the experience of white women.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “From childhood on, I found many of my angels in favorite authors, writers who created books that enabled me to understand life with greater complexity. These works opened my heart to compassion, forgiveness, and understanding.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Self-love cannot flourish in isolation. It is no easy task to be self-loving.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “I tell them that love is always there–that nothing can keep us from love if we dare to seek it and to treasure what we find.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Trust is the heartbeat of genuine love. And we trust that the attention our partners give friends, or vice versa, does not take anything away from us – we are not diminished.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “I would also say that, in practice, many more Americans are anarchists than would ever use that term.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “For black females, and males too, that means learning about the myriad ways racism, sexism, class exploitation, homophobia, and various other structures of domination operate in our daily lives to undermine our capacity to be self-determining.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “True forgiveness requires that we understand the negative actions of another.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “For many people the thrill of having more is intensified by the presence of those who have less. Waste is not the issue here. To many greedy individuals, power lies in withholding resources.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “The message given males is that to be honest is to be “soft.” The ability to be dishonest and indifferent to the consequences makes a male hard, separates the men from the boys.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “One difference with the political writings, whether about feminism or class, is that the intent is to change how people think of a certain political reality; whereas with cultural criticism, the goal is to illuminate something that is already there.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “To live fully we would need to let go of our fear of dying.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Patriarchal hip-hop ushered in a world where black males could declare that they were “keeping it real” when what they were really doing was taking the dead patriarchal protest of the black power movement and rearticulating it in forms that, though entertaining, had for the most part no transformative power, no ability to intervene on the politics of domination, and turn the real lives of black men around.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Heightened awareness often gives the illusion that a problem is lessening. This is most often not the case. It may mean simply that a problem has become so widespread it can no longer remain hidden or be ignored.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “I feel that I have many real students whom I have not met. Many are in cloisters and they never get out. Others are in prison. But in many cases they practice the teachings much better than those who meet me every day.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “When we black people commit ourselves to living simply as a political action, as a way of breaking the stress caused by unrelenting hedonistic desire for material objects that are not needed for survival, or essential to well-being, we will not be talking about ebonics. We will be out in the streets demanding that the public schools have enough teachers so that all kids, cross color, can read and write in standard English and in Spanish too.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “I knew that I wanted to follow their example and become a teacher who would help students become self-directed learners.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Healthy families resolve conflict without coercion, shaming, or violence.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “No other group in America has used black people as metaphors as extensively as white women involved in the women’s movement.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “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.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Love is an action, a participatory emotion. Whether we are engaged in a process of self-love or of loving others we must move beyond the realm of feeling to actualize love.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Its aim is not to benefit solely any specific group of women, any particular race or class of women. It does not privilege women over men. It has the power to transform in a meaningful way all our lives. Most importantly, feminism is neither a lifestyle nor a ready-made identity or role one can step into.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “By the end of the seventies the feared yet desired black male body had become as objectified as it was during slavery, only a seemingly positive twist had been added to the racist sexist objectification: the black male body had become the site for the personification of everyone’s desire.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “There is a definite distinction between that marginality which is imposed by oppressive structures and that marginality one chooses as site of resistance, as location of radical openness and possibility.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Feminism makes it possible for women and men to know love.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “False notions of love teach us that it is the place where we will feel no pain, where we will be in a state of constant bliss. We have to expose the falseness of these beliefs to see and accept the reality that suffering and pain do not end when we begin to love. In some cases when we are making the slow journey back from lovelessness to love, our suffering may become more intense. Acceptance of pain is part of loving practice.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Loneliness makes us cling to others in desperation; solitude allows us to respect others in their uniqueness and create community.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “White suffragists felt that white men were insulting white womanhood by refusing to grant them privileges that were to be granted black men. They admonished white men not for their sexism but for their willingness to allow sexism to overshadow racial alliances. Stanton, along with other white women’s rights supporters, did not want to see blacks enslaved, but neither did she wish to see the status of black people improved while the status of white women remained the same.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Now my feeling is that our hope lies in reality because the culture of empire – the capitalist, hedonistic patriarchal culture is driven by fantasy – an addiction to fantasy. To the extent that we can encourage and promote facing reality, we have concrete reasons to hope.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Most patriarchal fathers in our nation do not use physical violence to keep their sons in check; they use various techniques of psychological terrorism, the primary one being the practice of shaming. Patriarchal fathers cannot love their sons because the rules of patriarchy dictate that they stand in competition with their sons, ready to prove that they are the real man, the one in charge.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “When we hear another person’s thoughts, beliefs, and feelings, it is more difficult to project on to them our perceptions of who they are. It is harder to be manipulative.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “There are times when so much talk or writing, so many ideas seem to stand in the way, to block the awareness that for the oppressed, the exploited, the dominated, domination is not just a subject for radical discourse, for books. It is about pain – the pain of hunger, the pain of over-work, the pain of degradation and dehumanization, the pain of loneliness, the pain of loss, the pain of isolation, the pain of exile... Even before the words, we remember the pain.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Love does not lead to an end to difficulties, it provides us with the means to cope with our difficulties in ways that enhance our growth.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Much of what has been perceived by whites as an Amazonic trait in black women has been merely stoical acceptance of situations we have been powerless to change.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Shame makes self-acceptance and self-love impossible.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “It is not just men who do not take their pain seriously. Most women do not want to deal with male pain if it interferes with the satisfaction of female desire. When feminist movement led to men’s liberation, including male exploration of “feelings,” some women mocked male emotional expression with the same disgust and contempt as sexist men. Despite all the expressed feminist longing for men of feeling, when men worked to get in touch with feelings, no one really wanted to reward them.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Sexist discrimination has prevented white women from assuming the dominant role in the perpetuation of white racial imperialism, but it has not prevented white women from absorbing, supporting, and advocating racist ideology or acting individually as racist oppressors in various spheres of American life.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Peck defines community as the coming together of a group of individuals, ’who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationship go deeper than the masks of composure, and who have developed some significant commitment to rejoice together, mourn together, and to delight in each other, and make other’s conditions our own.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Many women cannot hear male pain about love because it sounds like an indictment of female failure. Since sexist norms have taught us that loving is our task whether in our role as mothers or lovers or friends, if men say they are not loved, then we are at fault; we are to blame.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “In the realm of the political, among the religious, in our families, and in our romantic lives, we see little indication that love informs decisions, strengthens our understanding of community, or keeps us together. This bleak picture in no way alters the nature of our longing. We still hope that love will prevail. We still believe in love’s promise.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “To create loving men, we must love males. Loving maleness is different from praising and rewarding males for living up to sexist-defined notions of male identity. Caring about men because of what they do for us is not the same as loving males for simply being.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “Enjoying the benefits of living and loving in community empowers us to meet strangers without fear and extend to them the gift of openness and recognition. Just by speaking to a stranger, acknowledging their presence on the planet, we make a connection.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “It is far too easy to stay stuck in simply describing, telling one’s story over and over again, which can be a way of holding on to grief about the past or holding on to a narrative that places blame on others.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “More than ever before in our nation’s history, females are encouraged to assume the patriarchal mask and bury their emotional selves as deeply as their male counterparts do. Females embrace this paradigm because they feel it is better to be a dominator than to be dominated.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “There is only one emotion that patriarchy values when expressed by men; that emotion is anger. Real men get mad.”
Bell Hooks Quote: “WHEN I WAS a child, it was clear to me that life was not worth living if we did not know love. I wish I could testify that I came to this awareness because of the love I felt in my life. But it was love’s absence that let me know how much love mattered. I was my father’s first daughter.”
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