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
committed life love loving people
The people I love, I'm committed to loving for the rest of my life.
black mean southern
The working-class black Southern Christian culture I come from still nurtures me, and I mean directly, daily.
changing continue feminist led people
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.
classes deeply ethic liberal
The ethic of liberal individualism has so deeply permeated the psyches of blacks... of all classes that we have little support for a political ethic of communalism that promotes the sharing of resources.
people
It really fascinates me what white people are allowed to write about.
merely proper
Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.
fall men seem
All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
chasm fine line love separating
I don't think you can hate anything that you know intimately. There is no fine line separating love from hate because there's a deep chasm separating love from hate.
attention early feminist persona star using
Using pseudonyms was such a part of the early feminist movement. We didn't want to have this star system. We wanted attention on the ideas, not the persona of the writer.