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Gloria Jean Watkins (born September 25, 1952), better known by her pen name bell hooks, is an American author, feminist, and social activist. The name "bell hooks" is derived from that of her maternal great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks.

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Part of why I have started writing about love is feeling that our culture is forgetting what Martin Luther King taught. We name more and more streets and schools after him but that's almost irrelevant, because what is to be remembered is that strength to love.

King, Kings, School, Strength, Writing

This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men feel the loss. Ultimately, one of the emotional costs of allegiance to patriarchy is to be seen as unworthy of trust. If women and girls in patriarchal culture are taught to see every male, including the males with whom we are intimate, as potential rapists and murderers, then we cannot offer them our trust, and without trust there is no love.

Girl, Loss, Maleness, Men, Patriarchy, Ultimately

Love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.

Doe, Love, Redemption, Saved, Saves, Want

Sexism has always been a political stance mediating social domination, enabling white men and black men to share a common sensibility about sex roles and the importance of male domination.

Sex, Men, White, Stance, Roles

A central theme of all about love is that from childhood into adulthood we are often taught misguided and false assumptions about the nature of love. Perhaps the most common false assumption about love is that love means we will not be challenged or changed.

Central, Childhood, Love, Love Is, Mean

I think part of Western metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other.

Dualism, Metaphysical, Thinking, Western

To teach in a manner that respects and cares for the souls of our students is essential if we are to provide the necessary conditions where learning can most deeply and intimately begin.

Care, Essentials, Intimately, Necessary, Soul, Teach

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

Pain, People, Resistance, Change, Begins, Wanting

I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to talk about the fact that we cannot educate for critical consciousness if we have a group of people who cannot access Fanon, Cabral, or Audre Lorde because they can’t read or write. How did Malcolm X radicalize his consciousness? He did it through books. If you deprive working-class and poor black people of access to reading and writing, you are making them that much farther removed from being a class that can engage in revolutionary resistance.

Book, Fanon, Farther, Kids, Reading, Resistance

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.

Black, Media, Tool, Viewers, Would Be

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.

Able, Alone, Children, Needs, Quiet

I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong.

Names, People, Write, Writing, Wrong

In patriarchal culture men are especially inclined to see love as something they should receive without expending effort. More often than not they do not want to do the work that love demands. When the practice of love invites us to enter a place of potential bliss that is at the same time a place of critical awakening and pain, many of us turn our backs on love.

Enter, Inclined, Men, Pain, Potential, Practice

We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.

Culture, Mass, Media, Unproblematic, White

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

Children, Passion, Learning, World, Ends, Encounter

Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that would be even more alienated and violent if caring women did not do the work of teaching men who have lost touch with themselves how to love again. This labor of love is futile only when the men in question refuse to awaken, refuse growth. At this point it is a gesture of self-love for women to break their commitment and move on.

Belittled, Commitment, Gesture, Lost, Moving, Teaching

My students tell me, we don't want to love! We're tired of being loving! And I say to them, if you're tired of being loving, then you haven't really been loving, because when you are loving you have more strength.

Love, Loving You, Strength, Tired, Want

The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.

Art, Imagine, Tell, Writing

A good teacher is someone who can help you to get back to a teacher within.

Back, Good, Good Teacher, Helping, Teacher

Relationships are treated like Dixie cups. They are the same. They are disposable. If it does not work, drop it, throw it away, get another. Committed bonds (including marriage) cannot last when this is the prevailing logic. Most of us are unclear about what to do to protect and strengthen caring bonds when our self-centered needs are not being met.

Caring, Self, Cups, Dixie, Protect

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