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Bell Hooks Quotes

Total quotes: 6
“The ability to critique oneself and change and to hear critique from others is the condition of being that makes us capable of responsibility.”
— Bell Hooks, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
Tagged: Critique, Growth
“Men of integrity are not ashamed to serve. They are caretakers, guardians, keepers of the flame. They know joy.”
— Bell Hooks, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
Tagged: Integrity, Service
“As long as women are using class or race or power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.”
— Bell Hooks, No, You Can’t Be A Feminist And A Zionist
Tagged: feminism, Intersectional Feminism, Internalized Misogyny
“All men support and perpetuate sexism and sexist oppression in one form or another … Like women, men have been socialized to passively accept sexist ideology. While they need not blame themselves for accepting sexism, they must assume responsibility for eliminating it.”
— Bell Hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
Tagged: toxic masculinity, Sexism
“There is only one emotion that patriarchy values when expressed by men; that emotion is anger. Real men get mad. And their mad-ness, no matter how violent or violating, is deemed natural— a positive expression of patriarchal masculinity. Anger is the best hiding place for anybody seeking to conceal pain or anguish of spirit.”
— Bell Hooks, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
Tagged: Anger, Emotion, Male
“In patriarchal culture men are not allowed to simply be who they are and glory in their unique identity. Their value is always determined by what they do. In an anti-patriarchal culture males do not have to prove their value and worth. They know from birth that simply being gives them value, the right to be cherished and loved.”
— Bell Hooks, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
Tagged: toxic masculinity, Patriarchy
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