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
art
there is no politically neutral art.
play feminism gains
Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us.
beautiful thinking color
We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
love giving self-love
Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.
determination self black
To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.
fall love-is anchors
Knowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair.
white diversity community
Like many white liberals, Ken sees the whiteness of his social life as more an accident of circumstance than a choice. He would welcome greater diversity in the neighbourhood. However, he does not consciously do enough work either in his social life or in the larger community to make that diversity possible.
art believe reading
Contrary to what some folks would have us believe, it is not tragic, even if undesirable, for a person to leave a liberal arts education not having read major works from this canon. Their lives are not ending. And the exciting dimension of knowledge is that we can learn a work without formally studying it. If a student graduates without reading Shakespeare and then reads or studies this work later, it does not delegitimize whatever formal course of study that was completed.
imagine
What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
paradise academy
The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.
voice white racism
As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing.
believe writing insanity
Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same.
acceptance men racism
Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity.
betrayal self-esteem lying
Even the wealthiest professional woman can be "brought down" by being in a relationship where she longs to be loved and is consistently lied to. To the degree that she trusts her male companion, lying and other forms of betrayal will most likely shatter her self-confidence and self-esteem.