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Bell Hooks Quotes
«I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.»
Author: Bell Hooks
«For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?»
Author: Bell Hooks
«I believe that this nation can only heal from the wounds of racism if we all begin to love blackness. And by that I don't mean that we love only that which is best within us, but that we're also able to love that which is faltering, which is wounded, which is contradictory, incomplete.»
Author: Bell Hooks
«Secrets find a way out in sleep . . . It is the place where there is no pretense.»
Author: Bell Hooks
«I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison.»
Author: Bell Hooks
«I feel enormously blessed to be a successful black woman writer in this culture, but I have found my small fame, such as it is, to be very isolating... because I think that especially for black women, the more we rise from the bottom, the more we move and journey, the more we are the targets of the most brutal and vicious attacks.»
Author: Bell Hooks
«I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.»
Author: Bell Hooks
«I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.»
Author: Bell Hooks
«Being oppressed means the absence of choices.»
Author: Bell Hooks
«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.»
Author: Bell Hooks