bell hooks

I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us. ”

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech. ”

The ethic of liberal individualism has so deeply permeated the psyches of blacks... of all classes that we have little support for a political ethic of communalism that promotes the sharing of resources. ”

I can be standing in Barneys with my coat and purse and my selections, and some white woman will say, 'Can you get this in my size?' What she sees is a black woman, and her service button goes off. ”

I told my parents when I was 12 I'd be a writer. ”

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

I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other. ”

I think I was always obsessed with esthetics. ”

My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine. ”

I love my family, even as I critique their dysfunctionalities. ”