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
war essence people
War in its essence is another form of capitalism. Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them. So much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group.
stress thinking capacity
I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being.
educational reality class
Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in educational settings.
community challenges these-days
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.
solitude black males
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.
culture female longing
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
self-esteem reality healthy
The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously is living with a core of healthy self-esteem. You will face reality, you will not delude yourself.
pain people resistance
True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.
white feminist agendas
We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.
love-is nouns als
The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet al the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb.
heart people cynical
Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.
hurt pain loss
The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
effort understanding way
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.
communication commitment care
To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients - care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication.