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
love spiritual giving
Spirituality and spiritual life give us the strength to love.
self-esteem integrity people
People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.
love self growth
When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.
relationship differences issues
Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to process all our issues, to cope with differences and conflict while staying connected.
thinking expression people
I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining, come to understand that when black people come together to celebrate and rejoice in black critical thinking, we do so not to exclude or to separate, but to participate more fully in world community. However, we must first be able to dialogue with one another, to give one another subject-to-subject recognition that is an act of resistance that is part of the decolonizing, anti-racist process.
moving love-is capacity-to-love
The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be with someone else in a manner that is not about your desire to possess them, but to be with them, to be in union and communion.
confused keeping-secrets space
In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with thoughts and feelings - where we can experience healthy psychological autonomy and can choose to share when we want to. Keeping secrets is usually about power, about hiding and concealing information.
challenges fiction adults
Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.
love-is domination lacking
Whenever domination is present, love is lacking.
revolution fierce progressive
The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.
ideas people static
Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
feminism majority oppression
Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority.
girl dream together
I gather together the dreams, fantasies, experiences that preoccupied me as a girl, that stay with me and appear and reappear in different shapes and forms in all my work. Without telling everything that happened, they document all that remains most vivid.
teaching practice movement
I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom.