bell hooks Quotes

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.

Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.

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.

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.

I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.

The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.

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.’

Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.

But love is really more of an interactive process. It’s about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun.

I love my family, even as I critique their dysfunctionalities.

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.

These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.

My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.

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.

I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.