bell hooks

I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.

My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.

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.

Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?

I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.

Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.

Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.

I love my family, even as I critique their dysfunctionalities.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.

A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I'm committed to loving you, then it's not possible for me to 'fall out of love.'

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

Using pseudonyms was such a part of the early feminist movement. We didn't want to have this star system. We wanted attention on the ideas, not the persona of the writer.

You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.