I would also say that, in practice, many more Americans are anarchists than would ever use that term. Bell Hooks More Quotes by Bell Hooks More Quotes From Bell Hooks I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole. Bell Hooks impact movement thinking People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities. Bell Hooks self-esteem integrity people Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love. Bell Hooks graves lifetime heart I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness. Bell Hooks able children needs Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical dualism, many of us have accepted the notion that there is a split between the body and the mind. Believing this, individuals enter the classroom to teach as though only the mind is present, and not the body. Bell Hooks erotic philosophical believe I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining, come to understand that when black people come together to celebrate and rejoice in black critical thinking, we do so not to exclude or to separate, but to participate more fully in world community. However, we must first be able to dialogue with one another, to give one another subject-to-subject recognition that is an act of resistance that is part of the decolonizing, anti-racist process. Bell Hooks expression giving thinking Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot be taken or are not allowed. Bell Hooks distance taken real I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply. Bell Hooks grace belief art When we are more energized by the practice of blaming than we are by efforts to create transformation, we not only cannot find relief from suffering, we are creating the conditions that help keep us stuck in the status quo Bell Hooks creating effort practice Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love Bell Hooks acceptance reason lying Time and time again when I talk to individuals about approaching love with will and intentionality, I hear the fear expressed that this will bring an end to romance. This is simply not so. Approaching romantic love from foundation of care, knowledge, and respect actually intensifies romance Bell Hooks foundation romantic-love romance Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life. Bell Hooks feminist justice thinking Women have endeavored to guide men to love because patriarchal thinking has sanctioned this work even as it has undermined it by teaching men to refuse guidance...A useful gift all love's practitioners can give is the offering of forgiveness. It not only allows us to move away from blame, from seeing others as the cause of our sustained lovelessness, but it enables us to experience agency, to know we can be responsible for giving and finding love. Bell Hooks teaching love moving Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world stops affirming us, that we are seen as unlovable. Bell Hooks independent girl children Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource. Bell Hooks important giving mean The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech. Bell Hooks speech movement political Feminist education — the feminist classroom — is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there is visible acknowledgment of the union of theory and practice, where we work together as teachers and students to overcome the estrangement and alienation that have become so much the norm in the contemporary university. Bell Hooks practice struggle teacher Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life. Bell Hooks moments passing-away moving We are rarely able to interact only with folks like ourselves, who think as we do. No matter how much some of us deny this reality and long for the safety and familiarity of sameness, inclusive ways of knowing and living offer us the only true way to emancipate ourselves from the divisions that limit our minds and imaginations. Bell Hooks knowing reality thinking I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure and joy. Bell Hooks teaching struggle giving
