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
family love
I love my family, even as I critique their dysfunctionalities.
domination society supports
Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
phrase possibly reality speak synonymous words
In this culture, the phrase 'black woman' is not synonymous with 'tender,' or 'gentle.' It's as if those words couldn't possibly speak to the reality of black females.
regime uses
Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits.
change enormous hardly people
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
certainly change demand emphasis federal government love racial racism
Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.
knowledge money
Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
mind
There is a lushness to how my mind works.
art assert building essential foundation identity males schooled sees
All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.
committed love loving major possible
A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I'm committed to loving you, then it's not possible for me to 'fall out of love.'
life people
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
button coat goes purse sees standing white
I can be standing in Barneys with my coat and purse and my selections, and some white woman will say, 'Can you get this in my size?' What she sees is a black woman, and her service button goes off.
assertion body create criticism given mirror movies time written
An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.
aggression black lives love mass media people time
In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we have no time to love.