Bell Hooks

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#racism

If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#love

Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#experience

Patriarchy has no gender. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#gender

We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#patriarchy #white-supremacy #media

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. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#giving-others-space #love #manners #self-care #self-confidence

There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#change

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#change

The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#love #men #patriarchy #relationships #love

Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#change