bell hooks Quotes.
The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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.
What’s really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don’t even really understand that equality hasn’t happened with the pay force.
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.
All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
There is a lushness to how my mind works.
These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.
I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that’s becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.
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.
The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.
I can be standing in Barneys with my coat and purse and my selections, and some white woman will say, ‘Can you get this in my size?’ What she sees is a black woman, and her service button goes off.
