Share & Save
Meaning
Not documented yet.
When It Was Said
Not documented yet.
Who It Was Said To
Not documented yet.
Historical Context
Not documented yet.
Source
Not documented yet.
Original Language & Translation
Originally said in English.
Did They Really Say It?
Not documented yet.
Did You Know?
Not documented yet.
About bell hooks
American philosopher, educator, author, and social critic
bell hooks was an American philosopher, educator, author, and social critic. Born Gloria Jean Watkins, she was a Distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College in Kentucky. She is known for writing under the name bell hooks and for shaping modern discussions of feminism and social critique. Her work examined race, gender, and social class, especially how they connect with capitalism and help sustain systems of oppression and class domination. She published nearly 40 books and many scholarly articles, moving between essays, poetry, and children's literature. Across that wide body of work, she wrote about love, art, history, sexuality, and mass media.
More from bell hooks (245 quotes) →Other sayings from bell hooks
- “Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.”bell hooks
- “Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an…”bell hooks
- “I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.”bell hooks
- “You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social ch…”bell hooks
Parenting: more sayings
Explore Feminism
- “Victimhood gives us great moral superiority and entitles us to unquestioning sympathy while exempting us from…”Belinda Brown
- “Go," she whispered. "Go. Show them you spell your name W-O-M-A-N.”Maya Angelou
- “Even women deeply committed to the emancipatory promises of modernity were alarmed by the "inappropriateness"…”Afsaneh Najmabadi
READ THE SOURCE
Books by bell hooks
Feminism Is for Everybody
2000
Yearning
1990
Ain't I a Woman
1981
Teaching to transgress
2014
Reel to real
1996