I think we have to choose, what are the issues that really matter? We have to trust that. Bell Hooks More Quotes by Bell Hooks More Quotes From Bell Hooks No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough. Bell Hooks womenblackwriting There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is too heavy. And sometimes the mountain top is difficult to reach with all our resources, factual and confessional, so we are just there, collectively grasping, feeling the limitations of knowledge, longing together, yearning for a way to reach that highest point. Even this yearning is a way to know. Bell Hooks let-it-gotogetherfeelings Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe — not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting. Bell Hooks perspectivejusticeintegrity If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue. Bell Hooks languagechancelittles Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives. Bell Hooks reallove-isbelieve ..Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one’s own use - need not be synonymous with exploitation. This is especially true of cultural appropriation. The “use” one makes of what is appropriated is the crucial factor. Bell Hooks processuseneeds 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 nounsverbslove-is Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands. Bell Hooks sufferinghandsthinking Within a capitalist consumer society, the cult of personality has the power to subsume ideas, to make the person, the personality into the product and not the work itself. Bell Hooks cult-of-personalityconsumersideas Love is an action, never simply a feeling. Bell Hooks actionfeelingslove-is Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with the opportunity to have the unconditional love we may have always longed to receive from someone else. Bell Hooks practiceopportunitylove To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients - care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication. Bell Hooks communicationcarecommitment I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison. Bell Hooks malesblacksolitude They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as patriarchs, by other men, including white men. Yet they could not assume this position if black women were not willing to conform to prevailing sexist gender norms. Many black women who has endured white-supremacist patriarchal domination during slavery did not want to be dominated by black men after manumission. Bell Hooks white-manblackmen I write these words to bear witness to the primacy of resistance struggle in any situation of domination (even within family life); to the strength and power that emerges from sustained resistance and the profound conviction that these forces can be healing, can protect us from dehumanization and despair. Bell Hooks strugglehealingwriting Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books. Bell Hooks readinginspirationalbook Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart. Bell Hooks cynicalheartpeople The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible. Bell Hooks imaginewritingart If only one party in the relationship is working to create love, to create the space of emotional connection, the dominator model remains in place and the relationship just becomes a site for continuous power struggle. Bell Hooks emotionalpartystruggle There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few. Bell Hooks feministlongideas
