Quote

The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community.

Bell Hooks

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bell Hooks
Challenges
Draw
Days
Draws
Community
Somewhere
Place
Challenge
Oneself
Courage
Dwell
Strength
Invest
Particular
Belong

More quotes by Bell Hooks

Image
We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.
Bell Hooks
Image
I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
Bell Hooks
Image
Even when people capitalize my name, I don't freak out, even though that would not be my choice.
Bell Hooks
Image
Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical dualism, many of us have accepted the notion that there is a split between the body and the mind. Believing this, individuals enter the classroom to teach as though only the mind is present, and not the body.
Bell Hooks
Image
Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels.
Bell Hooks
Image
I don't have issues around how I'm identified.
Bell Hooks
Image
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
Bell Hooks
Image
Only love can heal the wounds of the past. However, the intensity of our woundedness often leads to a closing of the heart, making it impossible for us to give or receive the love that is given to us.
Bell Hooks
Image
I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure and joy.
Bell Hooks
Image
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.
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
I think this is what people misunderstand about Martin Luther King saying to love your enemies. They think he was just using this silly little phrase, but what he meant was that as Black Americans we need to let our anger go, because holding on to it we hold ourselves down. We oppress ourselves by holding on to anger.
Bell Hooks
Image
Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.
Bell Hooks
Image
I think we have to talk about educating the people for critical consciousness about what anarchy is.
Bell Hooks
Image
We know that so much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group.
Bell Hooks
Image
Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
Bell Hooks
Image
Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with the opportunity to have the unconditional love we may have always longed to receive from someone else.
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
It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect.
Bell Hooks
Image
feminism is for everybody
Bell Hooks