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
lifetime
All my life I have longed to have a loving relationship that would last a lifetime.
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.
sleep seductive trying
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.
acceptance bad-ass feminist
The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization.
determination struggle heart
In order for me to engage in a revolutionary struggle for collective Black self-determination, I have to engage feminism because that becomes the vehicle by which I project myself as a female into the heart of the struggle, but the heart of the struggle does not begin with feminism. It begins with an understanding of domination and with a critique of domination in all its forms.
commitment soul domination
The soul of our politics is the commitment to ending domination.
writing should performing
Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.
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.
laughter white laughing
Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No one has ever explained why accurately naming this system is funny. The laughter is itself a weapon of patriarchal terrorism.
struggle political despair
Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.
love-you profound doe
You must have courage to love, you have to have a profound will to do what is right to love, and it does not come easy.
sexism powerless
Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.
teacher empowerment might
One of the things that we must do as teachers is twirl around and around, and find out what works with the situation that we're in. Our models might not work. And that twirling, changing, is part of the empowerment.
love self would-be
Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and whether that work enhances our well-being.