bell hooks: her most quoted lines (with the book they come from)
The top 3 according to 41 votes from people: Class struggle is inextricably bound to the struggle to end racism. · Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. · Racism has always been a divisive force separating black men and white men, and sexism has been a force that unites the two groups.. (Updated Feb 14, 2022.)
"Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression", the moment we choose to love and the crisis of patriarchal masculinity: the most quoted lines of bell hooks, from Ain't I a Woman and Feminist Theory to All About Love and The Will to Change, each with its source.
Top 11
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Class struggle is inextricably bound to the struggle to end racism.
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984), p. 3.
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Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.
Feminism Is for Everybody (2000).
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Racism has always been a divisive force separating black men and white men, and sexism has been a force that unites the two groups.
Ain't I a Woman (1981).
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The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity.
The Will to Change (2004).
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To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.
Killing Rage: Ending Racism (1995).
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The fear of being alone, or of being unloved, had caused women of all races to passively accept sexism and sexist oppression.
Ain't I a Woman (1981).
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The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression.
Outlaw Culture (1994), ch. "Love as the Practice of Freedom".
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Males learn to lie as a way of obtaining power, and females not only do the same but they also lie to pretend powerlessness.
All About Love (2000), ch. 3.
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There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984).
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To be in touch with senses and emotions beyond conquest is to enter the realm of the mysterious.
Outlaw Culture (1994), ch. "Altars of Sacrifice".
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People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.
Rock My Soul (2003).
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