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. bell hooks Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. bell hooks Read Quote
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. bell hooks Read Quote
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 Read Quote
All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being. bell hooks Read Quote
The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech. bell hooks Read Quote
