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RIP bell hooks
Dec. 15th, 2021 01:28 pmRest in Power, bell hooks. She was 69.
A few bell hooks quotes, pulled from Twitter:
“It is essential to our struggle for self-determination that we speak of love. For love is the necessary foundation enabling us to survive the wars, the hardships, the sickness, and the dying with our spirits intact. It is love that allows us to survive whole.”
“To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.”
“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.“
“Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.”
“True resistance begins with people confronting pain...and wanting to do something to change it.”
"queer not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but queer as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live."
"The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies."
“Within commodity culture, ethnicity becomes spice, seasoning that can liven up the dull dish that is mainstream white culture.”
“marginality [is] much more than a site of deprivation; in fact I was saying just the opposite, that it is also the site of radical possibility, a space of resistance.”
“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”
“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 don't want it to exist.”
All quotes from bell hooks.
A few bell hooks quotes, pulled from Twitter:
“It is essential to our struggle for self-determination that we speak of love. For love is the necessary foundation enabling us to survive the wars, the hardships, the sickness, and the dying with our spirits intact. It is love that allows us to survive whole.”
“To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.”
“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.“
“Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.”
“True resistance begins with people confronting pain...and wanting to do something to change it.”
"queer not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but queer as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live."
"The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies."
“Within commodity culture, ethnicity becomes spice, seasoning that can liven up the dull dish that is mainstream white culture.”
“marginality [is] much more than a site of deprivation; in fact I was saying just the opposite, that it is also the site of radical possibility, a space of resistance.”
“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”
“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 don't want it to exist.”
All quotes from bell hooks.
