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
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.
life people
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
history people supports wonder
These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.
change enormous hardly people
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
committed life love loving people
The people I love, I'm committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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.
people
It really fascinates me what white people are allowed to write about.
people abuse might
Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger.
people goal black
What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.
white people focus
It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.
lying people would-be
Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth.
self-esteem thinking people
I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
thinking numbers people
I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.
struggle people mind
Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind.