Our freedom is sweet. It will be sweeter when we are all free. Bell Hooks More Quotes by Bell Hooks More Quotes From Bell Hooks I don't have issues around how I'm identified. Bell Hooks issues We know that so much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group. Bell Hooks resources groups war I was teasing my brother that he was penniless, homeless, jobless. Right now in his life, racism isn't the central highlighting force: it's the world of work and economics. It doesn't mean that he isn't influenced by racism, but when he wakes up in the morning the thing that's driving his world is really issues of class, economics and power as they articulate themselves. Bell Hooks brother morning mean My work is mostly influenced by the concrete circumstances of our daily lives. Bell Hooks concrete daily-life circumstances We don't really live in a culture that loves boys or loves children, and we don't encourage boys to be whole. Bell Hooks boys culture children You have to trust that if you are calling my name in a way that is offensive to me, I'm going to share it with you. But you also have to know what your feelings are behind calling me "bell." Bell Hooks calling names feelings I'm lucky. I think it's good that I have a body of work that addresses different things in different ways. Bell Hooks addresses way thinking When the feminist movement was at its zenith in the late 60's and early 70's, there was a lot of moving away from the idea of the person. It was: let's talk about the ideas behind the work, and the people matter less. It was kind of a gimmicky thing, but lots of feminist women were doing it. Many of us took the names of our female ancestors - bell hooks is my maternal great grandmother - to honor them and debunk the notion that we were these unique, exceptional women. We wanted to say, actually, we were the products of the women who'd gone before us. Bell Hooks grandmother unique moving I think part of Western metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other. Bell Hooks metaphysical western thinking I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong. Bell Hooks names writing people We have to look at the substance of something rather than the shadow. Bell Hooks shadow substance looks I think we have to choose, what are the issues that really matter? We have to trust that. Bell Hooks issues matter thinking When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think of that work as love in action. While it may challenge, disturb and at times even frighten or enrage readers, love is always the place where I begin and end. Bell Hooks writing love-is thinking When I began to think deeply about the metaphysics of love I talked with everyone around me about it. I talked to large audiences and even had wee one-on-one conversations with children about the way they think about love. I talked about love in every state, everywhere I traveled. Bell Hooks children way thinking Radical militant feminist believes that women of color and Black women in particular have written the cutting edge theory and really were the individuals who exploded feminist theory into the directions that has made it more powerful. So I see us as the leaders not just of Black people and Black women in terms of feminism but in terms of the movement as a whole. Bell Hooks cutting powerful believe What's so amazing about this historical moment is that it is bringing class to the fore and we have to think about the nature of work and hierarchy. Bell Hooks historical class thinking I have been contemplating the place and meaning of love in our lives and culture for years. When a subject attracts my intellectual and emotional imagination, I am long to observe it from all angles, to know it inside and out. Bell Hooks emotional imagination years It's really important to have life strategies and part of that is sort of knowing where you want to go so you can have a map that helps you to get there. And the traditional way tells us oh we get into school and someone else advises us, helps us, but that often does not work for African Americans female and male. Because what works for the dominant culture often does not work for us. Bell Hooks african-american knowing school A good teacher is someone who can help you to get back to a teacher within. Bell Hooks good-teacher helping teacher I feel sad that we have allowed these knee-jerk feminists who want to act like it's a struggle against men...but again that's the least politically developed strand of feminism. Bell Hooks feminist struggle men
