Think of all the women you know who will not allow themselves to be seen without makeup. I often wonder how they feel about themselves at night when they are climbing into bed with intimate partners. Are they overwhelmed with secret shame that someone sees them as they really are? Or do they sleep with rage that who they really are can be celebrated or cared for only in secret?
It is poetry that changes everything. - Bell Hooks
It is poetry that changes everything.
- Bell Hooks
Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear,… - Bell Hooks
Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear,…
I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice o… - Bell Hooks
I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice o…
What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe. - Bell Hooks
What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
What we cannot imagine cannot come into being. - Bell Hooks
What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality. - Bell Hooks
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone. - Bell Hooks
[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.
Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they do… - Bell Hooks
Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they do…
Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies … - Bell Hooks
Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies …
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