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
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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.'
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I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and just smile at everyone who walked by. Like, 'Please take me with you!'
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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.
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There is a lushness to how my mind works.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.
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Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.
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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits.
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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.
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Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
family love
I love my family, even as I critique their dysfunctionalities.
I told my parents when I was 12 I'd be a writer.