773 Quotes by Bell Hooks

Sadly, children’s passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.

I tell them that love is always there–that nothing can keep us from love if we dare to seek it and to treasure what we find.

I’m such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that’s a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn’t that interested in moving from place to place.

The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy.

More than ever before in our nation’s history, females are encouraged to assume the patriarchal mask and bury their emotional selves as deeply as their male counterparts do. Females embrace this paradigm because they feel it is better to be a dominator than to be dominated.

Failure to examine the victimization of men keeps us from understanding maleness, from uncovering the space of connection that might lead more men to seek feminist transformation.

I think our culture doesn’t recognize passion, because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries.

No wonder then that male rage is often most directed at women in intimate relationships. Such relationships clearly trigger for many males the anger and rage they felt in childhood when their mothers did not protect them or ruthlessly severed emotional bonds in the name of patriarchy.

The need for instant gratification is a component of greed.