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bell hooks
bell hooks
American Critic
Born: Sep 25, 1952
Black Life Love People Think You
Related authors: George Steiner Henry Louis Gates James Wolcott Kimberly Guilfoyle Lawrence Clark Powell Margaret Fuller Pauline Kael Roger Ebert
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. bell hooks
Life Death Food Terrorism Poverty Every Addiction State Our Extreme No Life Drink Life-Threatening Abuse Toxic Domestic Child Child Abuse Closer Whether Warfare Us Bodies Act Found Mundane Brings Violence
For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed? bell hooks
Forgiveness Time Me Humanity People Compassion Believe Enough Touch Remain Wrongdoing Always How Linked Accountable Same Same Time Hold Transformed Capacity
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance. bell hooks
Life Ignorance Will Somebody My Life Down Else Someone Bow Whim
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. bell hooks
Love Love Is About More Feel Verb Just Interactive Process Really Noun
Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits. bell hooks
People World Isolation Every Spirits Terrorist Break Regime Uses
Live simply so that others may simply live. bell hooks
Live Others Simply May
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us. bell hooks
People Fear Drop Earth Draw Surround Heavenly Us Creatures Nearer
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
Beautiful You Judge Space Internet Somebody Skin Think Those Color Like Involved Looks None Whether Converse Skin Color Things Basis
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books. bell hooks
Me Books Through Come Ideas Always
Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge. bell hooks
Knowledge Class Money About More Also Than
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. bell hooks
Love Justice Rights Country Our Rights Movement Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Totally Known Greatest Movement Social Ethic Rooted Social Justice Ever
Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other. bell hooks
Love Time Other Relationships About More Takes Since Know Knowing Loving Meaningful Each
Any society based on domination supports and condones violence. bell hooks
Society Supports Domination Any Based Violence
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. bell hooks
Political Liberal Resources Classes Blacks Individualism Sharing Support Little Ethic Deeply
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women. bell hooks
Women People Focus Black Men White Group Other Out About Tends Had Identity Talked Existence Women Are America White Women Socialized
The people I love, I'm committed to loving for the rest of my life. bell hooks
Life Love People Rest My Life Committed Loving
I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words. bell hooks
Life Service Words Style Supports Contemplation Created
I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other. bell hooks
Tired You Women People Black Men Men And Women Other Never Support Like Know Get Acting Help Each
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
Women World Nation Think Everybody Our Impact Had Major Major Impact Movement Whole Lives
I can be standing in Barneys with my coat and purse and my selections, and some white woman will say, 'Can you get this in my size?' What she sees is a black woman, and her service button goes off. bell hooks
Service You Woman Will Black White Say Some Sees Purse She Off Get Goes Size Standing Coat Her Button
I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and just smile at everyone who walked by. Like, 'Please take me with you!' bell hooks
Smile Me You Mother Everyone Please Says Take Outside Like House Always Been Walked Child Just Stand Used Who Flirt
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children. bell hooks
Life People Think Life Experiences Know Children Different Want Experiences Who
I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply. bell hooks
Art Grace Living Simply Environment Feel Reflects Elegance Belief
Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope. bell hooks
Hope You Change People Once Static See Entities Idea Fixed Then Away
Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that's feminism. bell hooks
Struggle Women Better Cancer Care Face Feminism Than Whenever Breast Cancer Ever
I love my family, even as I critique their dysfunctionalities. bell hooks
Love Family Critique Even
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