bell hooks Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.”

“I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words.”

“When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.”

“All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.”

“Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.”

“Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.”

“It really fascinates me what white people are allowed to write about.”

“There is a lushness to how my mind works.”

“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.”

“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.”