I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
BELL HOOKSWhenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
-
-
Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
BELL HOOKS -
I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
BELL HOOKS -
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
BELL HOOKS -
The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.
BELL HOOKS -
Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
BELL HOOKS -
If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
BELL HOOKS -
Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
BELL HOOKS -
No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”. No woman has ever written enough.
BELL HOOKS -
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.
BELL HOOKS -
Patriarchy has no gender.
BELL HOOKS -
Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
BELL HOOKS -
All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
BELL HOOKS -
I think the Women’s movement has had a major impact on everybody’s lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
BELL HOOKS -
Living simply makes loving simple.
BELL HOOKS -
Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
BELL HOOKS