Top 67 Quotes by Bell Hooks

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.

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

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

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.

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.

What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.

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.

The working-class black Southern Christian culture I come from still nurtures me, and I mean directly, daily.

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

Live simply so that others may simply live.