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
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.
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.
challenges way
..Critically intervene in a way that challenges and changes.
believe two healthy
I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
definitions how-to-love would-be
Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.
children names silence
This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy.” Most children do not learn what to call this system of institutionaliz ed gender roles, so rarely do we name it in everyday speech. This silence promotes denial. And how can we organize to challenge and change a system that cannot be named?
justice no-love
Without justice there can be no love.
rage oppressed privileged
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
children learning passion
Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.
girl fun live-life
Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that in dominator culture, in a greedy culture, in a culture that uses so much of the world’s resources. How do men and women, boys and girls, live lives of compassion, justice and love? And I think that’s the visionary challenge for feminism and all other progressive movements for social change.
shame produce trauma
Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.
thinking people important
I still think it's important for people to have a sharp, ongoing critique of marriage in patriarchal society — because once you marry within a society that remains patriarchal, no matter how alternative you want to be within your unit, there is still a culture outside you that will impose many, many values on you whether you want them to or not.
white creating capitalist
You are not going to destroy this imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy by creating your own version of it,
silence racist faces
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.