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
love-is thinking self
I think this is often misunderstood in the West, where people feel that there can be no justice unless everything is the same. This is part of why I feel we have to relearn how we think about love, because we think about love so much in terms of the self.
determination self black
To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.
home school self
To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone. Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what I should be. School was the place where I could forget that self and, through ideas, reinvent myself.
children self giving
If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
love giving self-love
Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.
book men self
Within the new self-help books for women, patriarachy and male domination are rarely identified as forces that lead to the oppression, exploitation, and domination of women. Instead, these books suggest that individual relationships between men and women can be changed solely by women making the right choices.
self-esteem heart self-love
The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.
country thinking self
It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.
betrayal self-esteem lying
Even the wealthiest professional woman can be "brought down" by being in a relationship where she longs to be loved and is consistently lied to. To the degree that she trusts her male companion, lying and other forms of betrayal will most likely shatter her self-confidence and self-esteem.
self-esteem thinking people
I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
love self growth
When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.
self-esteem integrity people
People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.
self how-to-love environment
Whether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love cannot flourish in isolation.
self-esteem reality healthy
The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously is living with a core of healthy self-esteem. You will face reality, you will not delude yourself.