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
believe important
What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
sisterhood race class
As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
justice no-love
Without justice there can be no love.
girl children order
The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others.
memories heart dark
In an ideal world we would all learn in childhood to love ourselves. We would grow, being secure in our worth and value, spreading love wherever we went, letting our light shine. If we did not learn self-love in our youth, there is still hope. The light of love is always in us, no matter how cold the flame. It is always present, waiting for the spark to ignite, waiting for the heart to awaken and call us back to the first memory of being the life force inside a dark place waiting to be born - waiting to see the light.
heart world demand
The world demands that you work for it, make families, provide, take no time to listen to your own heart beating.
real believe voice
Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.
children thinking knows
Only grown-ups think that the things children say come out of nowhere. We know they come from the deepest parts of ourselves.
moving love-you way
The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love, we begin to move toward freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.
reality roots imagination
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
self-esteem successful men
The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem.
teacher believe struggle
My hope emerges from those places of struggle where I witness individuals positively transforming their lives and the world around them. Educating is a vocation rooted in hopefulness. As teachers we believe that learning is possible, that nothing can keep an open mind from seeking after knowledge and finding a way to know.
community way resistance
[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.
forgiveness believe compassion
For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?