Quote

I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that is redemptive, full of hope and possibility. Not this “In order to love you, I must make you something else”. That’s what domination is all about, that in order to be close to you, I must possess you, remake and recast you.

Bell Hooks

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bell Hooks
Must
Differences
Redemptive
Something
Full
Remake
Way
Age
Remakes
Make
Hope
Domination
Love
Else
Engage
World
Another
Possess
People
Order
Possibility
Place
Close
Recast

More quotes by Bell Hooks

Image
All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing and the like..I think we need to be wary: we need to work against the danger of evoking something that we don’t challenge ourselves to actually practice.
Bell Hooks
Image
The greater our commitment, the more likely our love will last.
Bell Hooks
Image
But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.
Bell Hooks
Image
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
Bell Hooks
Image
Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.
Bell Hooks
Image
My work is mostly influenced by the concrete circumstances of our daily lives.
Bell Hooks
Image
I don't have issues around how I'm identified.
Bell Hooks
Image
The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
Bell Hooks
Image
I think we have to talk about educating the people for critical consciousness about what anarchy is.
Bell Hooks
Image
Justice is possible without equality, I believe, because of compassion and understanding. If I have compassion, then if I have more than you, which is unequal, I will still do the just thing by you.
Bell Hooks
Image
Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in which male domination of women and children stands in the ways of love.
Bell Hooks
Image
There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
Bell Hooks
Image
Feminist education — the feminist classroom — is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there is visible acknowledgment of the union of theory and practice, where we work together as teachers and students to overcome the estrangement and alienation that have become so much the norm in the contemporary university.
Bell Hooks
Image
I write these words to bear witness to the primacy of resistance struggle in any situation of domination (even within family life) to the strength and power that emerges from sustained resistance and the profound conviction that these forces can be healing, can protect us from dehumanization and despair.
Bell Hooks
Image
Being oppressed means the absence of choices
Bell Hooks
Image
Let's face it, war in its essence is another form of capitalism.
Bell Hooks
Image
Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No one has ever explained why accurately naming this system is funny. The laughter is itself a weapon of patriarchal terrorism.
Bell Hooks
Image
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.
Bell Hooks
Image
Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact with a wider world.
Bell Hooks
Image
Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to process all our issues, to cope with differences and conflict while staying connected.
Bell Hooks