As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized. Bell Hooks More Quotes by Bell Hooks More Quotes From Bell Hooks When we concentrate on photography, we make it possible to see the walls of photographs in black homes as a critical intervention, a disruption of white control over black images. Bell Hooks wall photography home For black folks, the camera provided a means to document a reality that could, if necessary, be packed, stored, moved from place to place... [Photography] offered a way to contain memories, to overcome loss, to keep history. Bell Hooks photography memories mean To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society. Bell Hooks denial maintenance psychics It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect. Bell Hooks romantic-love expression want Solidarity is not the same as support. To experience solidarity, we must have a community of interests, shared beliefs and goals around which to unite, to build Sisterhood. Support can be occasional. It can be given and just as easily withdrawn. Solidarity requires sustained, ongoing commitment. Bell Hooks sisterhood goal commitment What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force. Bell Hooks ignorant men believe Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things. Bell Hooks ideas art thinking Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible. Bell Hooks writing book art Dare to look at the intersectionalities. Bell Hooks intersectionality dare looks 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. Bell Hooks black goal people To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone. Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what I should be. School was the place where I could forget that self and, through ideas, reinvent myself. Bell Hooks self home school In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable. Bell Hooks preoccupation inevitable culture I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism. Bell Hooks issues racism book 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 males impact children Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us. Bell Hooks scams feminism play I think we have to talk about educating the people for critical consciousness about what anarchy is. Bell Hooks anarchy people thinking Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority. Bell Hooks feminism oppression majority 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 passion book ideas A distinction must be made between that writing which enables us to hold on to life even as we are clinging to old hurts and wounds and that writing which offers to us a space where we are able to confront reality in such a way that we live more fully. Such writing is not an anchor that we mistakenly cling to so as not to drown. It is writing that truly rescues, that enables us to reach the shore, to recover. Bell Hooks hurt writing reality Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively. Bell Hooks foundation abuse opposites
