Quotes by Bell Hooks

Bell Hooks

. . . no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.

Black

Intellectual

Mind

. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression.

Pain

Play

Stress

..Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating – taking something for one’s own use – need not be synonymous with exploitation. This is especially true of cultural appropriation. The “use” one makes of what is appropriated is the crucial factor.

Needs

Process

Use

..Critically intervene in a way that challenges and changes.

Challenges

Way

[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.

Community

Resistance

Way

A central theme of all about love is that from childhood into adulthood we are often taught misguided and false assumptions about the nature of love. Perhaps the most common false assumption about love is that love means we will not be challenged or changed.

Childhood

Love Is

Mean

A distinction must be made between that writing which enables us to hold on to life even as we are clinging to old hurts and wounds and that writing which offers to us a space where we are able to confront reality in such a way that we live more fully. Such writing is not an anchor that we mistakenly cling to so as not to drown. It is writing that truly rescues, that enables us to reach the shore, to recover.

Hurt

Reality

Writing

A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers – the experience of knowing we always belong.

Heart

Knowing

Needs

A very hurting thing for Black Americans – to feel that we can’t love our enemies. People forget what a great tradition we have as African-Americans in the practice of forgiveness and compassion. And if we neglect that tradition, we suffer.

Compassion

Hurt

Practice

All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world. This individual commitment, when coupled with engagement in collective discussion, provides a space for critical feedback which strengthens our efforts to change and make ourselves anew.

Commitment

Reflection

Self

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Accountability

Action

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Admire

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Agreement

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Anarchy

Arena

Art

Awareness

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Believe

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Betrayal

Black

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Boys

Brother

Buddhism

Capitalist

Care

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Changing The World

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College

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Community

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Confused

Consumers

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Quotes by Bell Hooks

Bell Hooks

. . . no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.

. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression.

..Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating – taking something for one’s own use – need not be synonymous with exploitation. This is especially true of cultural appropriation. The “use” one makes of what is appropriated is the crucial factor.

..Critically intervene in a way that challenges and changes.

[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.

A central theme of all about love is that from childhood into adulthood we are often taught misguided and false assumptions about the nature of love. Perhaps the most common false assumption about love is that love means we will not be challenged or changed.

A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers – the experience of knowing we always belong.

A very hurting thing for Black Americans – to feel that we can’t love our enemies. People forget what a great tradition we have as African-Americans in the practice of forgiveness and compassion. And if we neglect that tradition, we suffer.

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