I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words. Bell Hooks More Quotes by Bell Hooks More Quotes From Bell Hooks Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair. Bell Hooks despair political struggle In an ideal world we would all learn in childhood to love ourselves. We would grow, being secure in our worth and value, spreading love wherever we went, letting our light shine. If we did not learn self-love in our youth, there is still hope. The light of love is always in us, no matter how cold the flame. It is always present, waiting for the spark to ignite, waiting for the heart to awaken and call us back to the first memory of being the life force inside a dark place waiting to be born - waiting to see the light. Bell Hooks dark heart memories If I were really asked to define myself, I wouldn’t start with race; I wouldn’t start with blackness; I wouldn’t start with gender; I wouldn’t start with feminism. I would start with stripping down to what fundamentally informs my life, which is that I’m a seeker on the path. I think of feminism, and I think of anti-racist struggles as part of it. But where I stand spiritually is, steadfastly, on a path about love. Bell Hooks race struggle thinking The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom. Bell Hooks moments moving Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody. Bell Hooks live-life justice inspiring The true teacher is within us. A good teacher is someone who can help you to go back and touch the true teacher within, because you already have the insight within you. Bell Hooks insight helping teacher The intellectual tradition of the West is very individualistic. It's not community-based. The intellectual is often thought of as a person who is alone and cut off from the world. So I have had to practice being willing to leave the space of my study to be in community, to work in community, and to be changed by community. Bell Hooks cutting space practice Patriarchy, like any system of domination (for example, racism), relies on socializing everyone to believe that in all human relations there is an inferior and a superior party, one person is strong, the other weak, and that it is therefore natural for the powerful to rule over the powerless. To those who support patriarchal thinking, maintaining power and control is acceptable by whatever means. Bell Hooks party powerful strong Intersectionality allow us to focus on what is most important at a given point in time. Bell Hooks given focus important You are not going to destroy this imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy by creating your own version of it. Bell Hooks capitalist creating white Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. Bell Hooks meaningful love life Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it. Bell Hooks sexism powerless Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice. Bell Hooks voice real believe 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 compassion believe What we cannot imagine cannot come into being. Bell Hooks imagine A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers - the experience of knowing we always belong. Bell Hooks knowing heart needs The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others. Bell Hooks girl order children One of the things that we must do as teachers is twirl around and around, and find out what works with the situation that we're in. Our models might not work. And that twirling, changing, is part of the empowerment. Bell Hooks empowerment might teacher Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to process all our issues, to cope with differences and conflict while staying connected. Bell Hooks issues differences relationship I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that is redemptive, full of hope and possibility. Not this “In order to love you, I must make you something else”. That’s what domination is all about, that in order to be close to you, I must possess you, remake and recast you. Bell Hooks differences love order
