bell hooks Quotes

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?

bell hooks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The conquest of space is not merely a technological project of interest to a handful of select scientists and specialists, valuable though that research and information may be.

John Glenn

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I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

John Podhoretz

CityWashingtonConservative

The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.

John Polanyi

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If we are to build grassroots respect for the institutions and processes that constitute democracy, the state must treat its citizens as real citizens rather than as subjects.

Mo Ibrahim

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No addiction is good.

Jose Mujica

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It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful.

Jonny Greenwood

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When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty.

Dom DeLuise

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This is the hardest part for me. Just the waiting - the waiting to fight. The work has all been done, and you just have to wait.

Deontay Wilder

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I have a high tolerance for pain - both physical and mental.

Dr. Dre

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The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.

Christopher Hitchens

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It's been cool to catch up, but I think I'm done with my exes. To be honest, I went out with flying colors on the majority of them.

Brantley Gilbert

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The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he works, in terms of the kind of light the windows in these places let through and by which we see him every day.

Arnold Newman

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