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
running thinking class
None of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of being immodest, and acting courageously to bring issues of class- especially radical standpoints – into the discourse of blackness is a gesture of militant defiance, one that runs counter to bourgeois insistence that we think of “money” in particular and class in general as private matters.
running mean president
In 2014, when Hillary Clinton was not yet running for president, I stated that I was not in agreement with her politics. More recently, when asked my thoughts about Hillary Clinton during a public conversation with Gloria Steinem, I stated, "she embodies the very best of imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't vote for her."
care face whenever women
Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that's feminism.
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.
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.
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.
life people
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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.'
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.
mind
There is a lushness to how my mind works.
knowledge money
Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
history people supports wonder
These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.
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.
change enormous hardly people
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.