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
america cannot taken trauma until
Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.
domination society supports
Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
family love
I love my family, even as I critique their dysfunctionalities.
committed life love loving people
The people I love, I'm committed to loving for the rest of my life.
black mean southern
The working-class black Southern Christian culture I come from still nurtures me, and I mean directly, daily.
changing continue feminist led people
The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of people and that one did not have to continue the personal consciousness-raising and changing of one's viewpoint.
classes deeply ethic liberal
The ethic of liberal individualism has so deeply permeated the psyches of blacks... of all classes that we have little support for a political ethic of communalism that promotes the sharing of resources.
people
It really fascinates me what white people are allowed to write about.
merely proper
Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.
chasm fine line love separating
I don't think you can hate anything that you know intimately. There is no fine line separating love from hate because there's a deep chasm separating love from hate.
attention early feminist persona star using
Using pseudonyms was such a part of the early feminist movement. We didn't want to have this star system. We wanted attention on the ideas, not the persona of the writer.
forget admire critique
Readers forget that one can critique yet still admire.
commitment
Clearly, commitment is a necessary component for creating loving relationships.
commitment
The greater our commitment, the more likely our love will last.