bell hooks Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?”

“We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.”

“My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.”

“Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.”

“Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.”

“I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.”

“I love my family, even as I critique their dysfunctionalities.”

“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.”

“It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.”

“But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.”