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 Sexism has always been a political stance mediating social domination, enabling white men and black men to share a common sensibility about sex roles and the importance of male domination. Bell Hooks white-man men sex Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting and attended similar schools as "not black enough." ...Our concept of black experience has been too narrow and constricting. Bell Hooks teaching white school Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know. Bell Hooks wells shapes use It was the world of Southern, rural, black growing up, of folks sitting on porches day and night, of folks calling your mama, 'cause you walked by and didn't speak, and of the switch waiting when you got home so that you could be taught some manners. It was a world of single black older women schoolteachers, dedicated, tough; they had taught your mama, her sisters, and her friends. They knew your people in ways that you never would and shared their insight, keeping us in touch with generations. It was a world where we had a history. Bell Hooks growing-up home night ... feminist solidarity rooted in a commitment to progressive politics must include a space for rigorous critique, for dissent, orwe are doomed to reproduce in progressive communities the very forms of domination we seek to oppose. Bell Hooks feminist space commitment 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 valleys suffering struggle None of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of being immodest, and acting courageously to bring issues of class- especially radical standpoints – into the discourse of blackness is a gesture of militant defiance, one that runs counter to bourgeois insistence that we think of “money” in particular and class in general as private matters. Bell Hooks class running thinking A central tenet of modern feminist thought has been the assertion that "all women are oppressed." This assertion implies that women share a common lot, that factors like class, race, religion, sexual preference, etc. do not create a diversity of experience that determines the extent to which sexism will be an oppressive force in the lives of individual women. Bell Hooks diversity race class there is no politically neutral art. Bell Hooks art I think we are obsessed in the U.S. with the personal, in ways that blind us to more important issues of life. I just think if we could take all the obsession with the personal (inaudible), and personal judgment and have people be concerned about the environment, what a different world we would live in. Bell Hooks issues people thinking Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger. Bell Hooks abuse might people The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. Until we make this distinction clear, men will continue to fear that any critique of patriarchy represents a threat. Bell Hooks threat distinction men I think it's crazy for us to think that people don't understand what's being foregrounded in their lives at a given point in time. Bell Hooks crazy people thinking Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against. Bell Hooks black-women black world Yearning is the word that best describes a common psychological state shared by many of us, cutting across boundaries of race, class, gender, and sexual practice. Bell Hooks cutting race practice 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 space beautiful thinking ... we need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously. Bell Hooks taken way needs 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 abuse addiction children To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination. Bell Hooks black determination self Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same. Bell Hooks writing insanity believe
