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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
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change. bell hooks
You Change People Live Enormous Once Only Excess Simply Want Social Social Change Realize Hardly
Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment. bell hooks
Wisdom Spiritual Experience World Path Important Islam About Part Buddhism Talked Important Part First-Hand Teachers Many Enlightenment
In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we have no time to love. bell hooks
Love Time People Black Our Our Lives Tell Fraught General No Time Mass Mass Media Loving To Love Us Aggression Media Lives Violence
Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction. bell hooks
Love Government Change Racism Distinction Federal Federal Government Emphasis Demand End Racial Certainly
A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I'm committed to loving you, then it's not possible for me to 'fall out of love.' bell hooks
Love Me You Commitment Love Is Fall Out Possible Someone Part Major Major Part Committed Loving Then
I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer. bell hooks
Women Black White Though Disturbed Blacks Only Writer Students Identify Read Behave
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. bell hooks
Love World Fear Nationalism Thinking Increasingly Tortured About Perfect Perfect Love Xenophobic Without Becoming Been Being Us Means Notion Fundamentalism
All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem. bell hooks
Commitment Problem Men Fall Seem
I think I was always obsessed with esthetics. bell hooks
Think Obsessed Always
I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health. bell hooks
Health Women People Black Think Our One Thing Attention Should Paying Thing Number
I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism. bell hooks
Justice Racism Ending Criticism Feminism Books Written Mostly Dealing Issues Cultural Social Social Justice
In this culture, the phrase 'black woman' is not synonymous with 'tender,' or 'gentle.' It's as if those words couldn't possibly speak to the reality of black females. bell hooks
Woman Culture Reality Words Speak Black Synonymous Those Possibly Phrase Tender Gentle Females
Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims. bell hooks
Rage Blacks Proper Merely Lack Victims Who
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