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bell hooks Quotes

American - Critic | September 25, 1952 -

Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.

Legacy Black America Seriously Taken

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.

Good Art People Negative Think Know

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.

Quality Sleep Feel Trying Back Us

Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?

Men Legacy Color Why Thinkers Many

I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.

Think Always I Think Obsessed

I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words.

Life Style Service Words Created

Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits.

People World Isolation Break Spirits

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.

Control Black Media Everyone Tool

I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.

Life Children People Think Know Who

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

Family Love Even Critique I Love

Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.

Rage Who Victims Proper Blacks Lack

There is a lushness to how my mind works.

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