773 Quotes by Bell Hooks

True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.

An overwhelming majority of us come from dysfunctional families in which we were taught we were not okay, where we were shamed, verbally and/or physically abused, and emotionally neglected even as (we) were taught to believe that we were loved.

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.

Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all that is good remains wedded to the very logic of Western metaphysical dualism that is the heart of racist binary thinking. Such thinking is not liberatory. Like the racist educational ideology it mirrors and imitates, it invites a closing of the mind.

While it has become “cool” for white folks to hang out with black people and express pleasure in black culture, most white people do not feel that this pleasure should be linked to unlearning racism.

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

Cuando admitamos que el amor verdadero se basa en el reconocimiento y la aceptación, que ese amor se construye sobre la gratitud, el cuidado, la responsabilidad, el compromiso y el conocimiento mutuo, entenderemos que no puede haber amor sin justicia.

Individual members of certain churches in black communities should protest when worship services become a platform for teaching anti-gay sentiments. Often individuals sit and listen to preachers raging against gay people and think the views expressed are amusing and outmoded, and dismiss them without challenge. But if homophobia is to be eradicated in black communities, such attitudes must be challenged.

To tend the earth is always then to tend our destiny, our freedom and our hope.