bell hooks
bell hooks
American author, feminist, and social activist whose real name is Gloria Jean Watkins. She wrote "Ain’t I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism".
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth25 September 1952
CityHopkinsville, KY
CountryUnited States of America
redemption want doe
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.
challenges way
..Critically intervene in a way that challenges and changes.
believe two healthy
I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
definitions how-to-love would-be
Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.
justice no-love
Without justice there can be no love.
rage oppressed privileged
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
children learning passion
Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.
shame produce trauma
Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.
thinking people important
I still think it's important for people to have a sharp, ongoing critique of marriage in patriarchal society — because once you marry within a society that remains patriarchal, no matter how alternative you want to be within your unit, there is still a culture outside you that will impose many, many values on you whether you want them to or not.
white creating capitalist
You are not going to destroy this imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy by creating your own version of it,
silence racist faces
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
lying men telling-the-truth
When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.
fall writing passion
Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy—“to stand outside”—comes to me in those moments when I am immersed so deeply in the act of thinking and writing that everything else, even flesh, falls away.
world way changing-the-world
Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.