bell hooks Quotes

In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we have no time to love.

bell hooks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 25, 1952

Topics

LoveTimePeopleBlackMediaLoving

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

Jimmy Carter

TimeDiscriminationYouSayOver

A good plate of sushi after an opening helps to soothe that post-opening blues - especially since you feel like raw meat yourself.

Jim Drain

GoodYourselfFeelYouBluesSushi

Watching my kids grow up made me realize that they would never know a world or a time without the Internet.

Jo Webber

TimeMeWorldGrowInternetKnow

Portishead's production is just insane beats you would expect to be on a KRS-One album. But then there's this little white girl with an angel voice singing over it. It was a cool juxtaposition. I like 'It's A Fire.' That's a chill song with kind of a military drum thing going on, like a drummer boy.

Anders Holm

GirlFireCoolAngelSingingSong

Because I work on leukemia, the image of cancer I carry in my mind is that of blood. I imagine that doctors who work on breast cancer or pancreatic cancer have very different visualizations.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

WorkMindBloodImageCancerCarry

I've always viewed myself as a behind-the-scenes person rather than in front of the camera.

Tommy Mottola

MyselfCameraPersonAlwaysRather

Nothing's a break for me. Not even the breaks are breaks.

Robert Downey, Jr.

MeNothingBreakBreaksEven

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Jonathan Swift

MenWonderNeverSeeWickedAshamed

Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.

Jose Bergamin

MatterEverythingOne ThingOnly

Some parents struggle to put food on the table. And plenty of women aren't getting the pay they deserve. While I don't expect the government to solve all these problems, I do want leaders who care about these things and do what they can to help.

Chrissy Teigen

WomenFoodStruggleGovernmentHelp

In my house every Sunday, everybody was cleaning the house. There was always music, and everybody was dancing, sometimes naked, around the house. Not hippie, but very free.

Penelope Cruz

MusicFreeHouseSundayCleaning

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

Maria Mitchell

GirlAloneSocietyHerGiveCloset

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