773 Quotes by Bell Hooks

When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.

The people I love, I'm committed to loving for the rest of my life.

Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot be taken or are not allowed.

You are not going to destroy this imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy by creating your own version of it,

I told my parents when I was 12 I'd be a writer.

What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.

Readers forget that one can critique yet still admire.