One of the things I find most exciting is talking with people who are working with my work. Who are using it in some way with their life to address everyday politics of meaning. Bell Hooks More Quotes by Bell Hooks More Quotes From Bell Hooks Sadly, anarchy has gotten such a bad name. We don't really see much evidence of it because people associate it with reckless abandon. Bell Hooks anarchy names people Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously. Bell Hooks african-american taken class We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intellectual process. We should forcefully explain that our role is not to teach them to think as we do but rather to teach them, by example, the importance of taking a stance that is rooted in rigorous engagement with the full range of ideas about a topic. Bell Hooks thoughtful education thinking It's interesting to look at all the aspects where everyday Americans, many of whom are not college educated, are thinking deeply now about our economic structure. Bell Hooks college interesting thinking Like desire, language disrupts, refuses to be contained within boundaries. Bell Hooks language desire sex If anything I think postmodernism has the least impact on my work. Bell Hooks postmodernism impact thinking Is it more important that you, as a white male, read my work and learn from it, or what you call me? I think it's more important that you read my work, reflect on it, and allow it to transform your life and your thinking in some way. Bell Hooks important white thinking It's interesting--the way in which one has to balance life--because you have to know when to let go and when to pull back.... There's always some liminal (as opposed to subliminal) space in between which is harder to inhabit because it never feels as safe as moving from one extreme to another. Bell Hooks letting-go life moving Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. These workshops are important, yet they tend to focus primarily on cathartic individual psychological personal prejudice without stressing the need for corresponding change in political commitment and action. A woman who attends an unlearning racism workshop and learns to acknowledge that she is racist is no less a threat than one who does not. Acknowledgment of racism is significant when it leads to transformation. Bell Hooks stress white commitment The significance of feminist movement (when it is not co-opted by opportunistic, reactionary forces) is that it offers a new ideological meeting ground for the sexes, a space for criticism, struggle, and transformation. Bell Hooks space struggle sex Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them. Bell Hooks rich war people Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in arenas where there has been little or no change. Bell Hooks arena different littles Let's face it, war in its essence is another form of capitalism. Bell Hooks essence faces war Even when people capitalize my name, I don't freak out, even though that would not be my choice. Bell Hooks choices names people Today masses of black women in the U.S. refuse to acknowledge that they have much to gain by feminist struggle. They fear feminism. They have stood in place so long that they are afraid to move. They fear change. They fear losing what little they have. Bell Hooks struggle long moving I guess I wish we could talk about: what does it mean to have a politics of intersectionality that also privileges what form of domination is most oppressing us at a given moment in time. Bell Hooks wish doe mean When I think about the auto-industry and how it was one of the industries that brought all of these black men from the South to Michigan and other places to make more money than they could ever make in the cotton fields or the agricultural world of the South... what's happening now is all of that is closing down, and we know that it's going to reopen in Southern places, focusing on Mexican and other migrant workers to come and work cheaply and get none of the benefits. Bell Hooks southern men thinking Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope. Bell Hooks anarchist grain gone To the extent that we live in a postmodern world and it shapes the concrete circumstances of our daily lives, I would say postmodernism affects my work or influences my work. Bell Hooks influence shapes world Right now, for many Americans, class is being foregrounded like never before because of the economic situation. It doesn't mean that race doesn't matter, or gender doesn't matter, but it means that right now in many people's lives, in the lives of my own family members, people are losing jobs, insurance. Bell Hooks race jobs mean
