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Bell Hooks Quotes

Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis Picture Quote #1

To indoctrinate boys into the rules of patriarchy, we force them to feel pain and to deny their feelings Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life Picture Quote #1

Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform Picture Quote #1

Part of the heart of anarchy is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking about our realities. Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that’s been a place of hope Picture Quote #1

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To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone. Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what I should be. School was the place where I could forget that self and, through ideas, reinvent myself Picture Quote #1

I believe that this nation can only heal from the wounds of racism if we all begin to love blackness. And by that I don’t mean that we love only that which is best within us, but that we’re also able to love that which is faltering, which is wounded, which is contradictory, incomplete Picture Quote #1

I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer... education as the practice of freedom... education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created Picture Quote #1

All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing and the like.. I think we need to be wary: we need to work against the danger of evoking something that we don’t challenge ourselves to actually practice Picture Quote #1

Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated in movements for social justice, speaking out on behalf of the workers, the poor, speaking out on behalf of racial justice. However when it came to the issue of gender they were as sexist as their conservative cohorts Picture Quote #1

To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved Picture Quote #1

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We fear that evaluating our needs and then carefully choosing partners will reveal that there is no one for us to love. Most of us prefer to have a partner who is lacking than no partner at all. What becomes apparent is that we may be more interested in finding a partner than in knowing love Picture Quote #1

This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men feel the loss. Ultimately, one of the emotional costs of allegiance to patriarchy is to be seen as unworthy of trust. If women and girls in patriarchal culture are taught to see every male, including the males with whom we are intimate, as potential rapists and murderers, then we cannot offer them our trust, and without trust there is no love Picture Quote #1

In patriarchal culture men are especially inclined to see love as something they should receive without expending effort. More often than not they do not want to do the work that love demands. When the practice of love invites us to enter a place of potential bliss that is at the same time a place of critical awakening and pain, many of us turn our backs on love Picture Quote #1

All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm’s way Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first - hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment Picture Quote #1

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech Picture Quote #1

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love Picture Quote #1

I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy Picture Quote #1

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the Earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us Picture Quote #1

Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy? Picture Quote #1

The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others Picture Quote #1

As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing Picture Quote #1

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Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis (Bell Hooks Quotes) To indoctrinate boys into the rules of patriarchy, we force them to feel pain and to deny their feelings (Bell Hooks Quotes) 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 Quotes) Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life (Bell Hooks Quotes) Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform (Bell Hooks Quotes) Part of the heart of anarchy is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking about our realities. Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that’s been a place of hope (Bell Hooks Quotes) To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone. Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what I should be. School was the place where I could forget that self and, through ideas, reinvent myself (Bell Hooks Quotes) I believe that this nation can only heal from the wounds of racism if we all begin to love blackness. And by that I don’t mean that we love only that which is best within us, but that we’re also able to love that which is faltering, which is wounded, which is contradictory, incomplete (Bell Hooks Quotes) I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer... education as the practice of freedom... education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created (Bell Hooks Quotes) All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing and the like.. I think we need to be wary: we need to work against the danger of evoking something that we don’t challenge ourselves to actually practice (Bell Hooks Quotes) Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated in movements for social justice, speaking out on behalf of the workers, the poor, speaking out on behalf of racial justice. However when it came to the issue of gender they were as sexist as their conservative cohorts (Bell Hooks Quotes) To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved (Bell Hooks Quotes) We fear that evaluating our needs and then carefully choosing partners will reveal that there is no one for us to love. Most of us prefer to have a partner who is lacking than no partner at all. What becomes apparent is that we may be more interested in finding a partner than in knowing love (Bell Hooks Quotes) This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men feel the loss. Ultimately, one of the emotional costs of allegiance to patriarchy is to be seen as unworthy of trust. If women and girls in patriarchal culture are taught to see every male, including the males with whom we are intimate, as potential rapists and murderers, then we cannot offer them our trust, and without trust there is no love (Bell Hooks Quotes) In patriarchal culture men are especially inclined to see love as something they should receive without expending effort. More often than not they do not want to do the work that love demands. When the practice of love invites us to enter a place of potential bliss that is at the same time a place of critical awakening and pain, many of us turn our backs on love (Bell Hooks Quotes) All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm’s way (Bell Hooks Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first - hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment (Bell Hooks Quotes) The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech (Bell Hooks Quotes) I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love (Bell Hooks Quotes) I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us (Bell Hooks Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy (Bell Hooks Quotes) When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the Earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us (Bell Hooks Quotes) Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy? (Bell Hooks Quotes) The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others (Bell Hooks Quotes) As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing (Bell Hooks Quotes)

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