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"I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer."

--- Bell Hooks

#White #Black #Students

"Justice is possible without equality, I believe, because of compassion and understanding. If I have compassion, then if I have more than you, which is unequal, I will still do the just thing by you."

--- Bell Hooks

#Ifs #Stills #Believe

"We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent."

--- Bell Hooks

#World #Causes #Difficulty

"To teach in a manner that respects and cares for the souls of our students is essential if we are to provide the necessary conditions where learning can most deeply and intimately begin."

--- Bell Hooks

#Ifs #Care #Soul

"Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things."

--- Bell Hooks

#Ifs #People #Thinking

"Sexism has always been a political stance mediating social domination, enabling white men and black men to share a common sensibility about sex roles and the importance of male domination."

--- Bell Hooks

#Males #Men #Importance

"I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being."

--- Bell Hooks

#Thinking #Wells #Well Being

"What we cannot imagine cannot come into being."

--- Bell Hooks

#Imagine

"As females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves"

--- Bell Hooks

#Masters #Slave #Culture

"Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist."

--- Bell Hooks

#Want #People #Sometimes

"There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures."

--- Bell Hooks

#Way #Consciousness #Effort

"It is important and vital is to keep that education for critical consciousness around intersectionalities, so that people are able to not focus on one thing and blame one group, but be able to look holistically at the way intersectionality informs all of us: whiteness, gender, sexual preferences, etc. Only then can we have a realistic handle on the political and cultural world we live within."

--- Bell Hooks

#Important #People #Way

"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

#Offers #Needs #Ready

"The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community."

--- Bell Hooks

#Draws #Community #Oneself

"In 2014, when Hillary Clinton was not yet running for president, I stated that I was not in agreement with her politics. More recently, when asked my thoughts about Hillary Clinton during a public conversation with Gloria Steinem, I stated, "she embodies the very best of imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't vote for her.""

--- Bell Hooks

#Running #White #Mean

"As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a problem. Masses of people think that feminism is always and only about women seeking to be equal to men. And a huge majority of these folks think feminism is anti-male. Their misunderstanding of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks learn about feminism from patriarchal mass media."

--- Bell Hooks

#Ifs #People #Thinking

"Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community."

--- Bell Hooks

#Giving #World #Community

"It was the world of Southern, rural, black growing up, of folks sitting on porches day and night, of folks calling your mama, 'cause you walked by and didn't speak, and of the switch waiting when you got home so that you could be taught some manners. It was a world of single black older women schoolteachers, dedicated, tough; they had taught your mama, her sisters, and her friends. They knew your people in ways that you never would and shared their insight, keeping us in touch with generations. It was a world where we had a history."

--- Bell Hooks

#Mama #Manners #Calling

"The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic."

--- Bell Hooks

#Known #Social #Movement

"One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library."

--- Bell Hooks

#States #Institutions #United

"Being oppressed means the absence of choices"

--- Bell Hooks

#Mean #Choices #Oppressed

"I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism."

--- Bell Hooks

#Thinking #Has Beens #World

"Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it."

--- Bell Hooks

#Powerless #Sexism

"One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness – in communities, in institutions, among friends."

--- Bell Hooks

#Today #Consciousness #Collectives

"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

#Practice #Effort #Suffering

"If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency."

--- Bell Hooks

#Ifs #Giving #Feels

"It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego."

--- Bell Hooks

#Want #Fun #Self

"Whenever domination is present, love is lacking."

--- Bell Hooks

#Love Is #Lacking #Domination

"... privacy is ... connected to a politics of domination."

--- Bell Hooks

#Connected #Privacy #Domination

"Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling."

--- Bell Hooks

#Genuine #Bliss #Solve

"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

#Males #Young #Consciousness

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