#k

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

#girl #i #interested #like #living

No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#america #black #existence #focus #group

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#buddhism #enlightenment #experience #first-hand #important

Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#each #know #knowing #love #loving

Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#all things #art #attention #create #creative

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#black #health #i #i think #number

I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#had #i #i think #impact #lives

I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#black #blacks #disturbed #i #identify

I think we really almost burnt ourselves out on one record. ↗

— Shannon Hoon

#burnt #i #i think #ourselves #out

Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#act #art #audience #been #books