bell hooks Quotes

What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.

bell hooks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleFreeBlackGoalOppression

I can't point to anything that has been more responsible for my career than my training.

Jim Parrack

TrainingCareerMoreResponsible

Where folks like Google have fallen down is in just putting a little review box up, then closing their eyes and letting the algorithm take care of itself. Yelp is a technology company, but also a company that understands how people want to connect with one another.

Jeremy Stoppelman

TechnologyEyesPeopleCareDown

You cannot work with men who won't work with you.

John Harvey Kellogg

WorkMenYouCannotWho

I was born in New Jersey but grew up mostly in Florida. My dad died when I was 8.

John Joseph Adams

BornNewFloridaUpJerseyDied

Grace is a quality in people that I just enjoy. It's a very human quality.

Jeff Buckley

QualityPeopleGraceEnjoyHuman

I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals.

Steven Seagal

PoliticsEthicsMoralsDirtyDignity

I can't deliver lines, but I can talk about food all night long.

Tom Colicchio

FoodNightLongI CanTalkLines

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.

Robyn Hitchcock

HopeDayMeWritingWorldDie

The lawyer refused to tell me my brother's name, and my colleagues started a betting pool. The leading candidate: John Travolta. I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James - someone more talented than I: someone brilliant without even trying.

Mona Simpson

BrotherMeLawyerColleaguesName

Don't say 'the White House wants.' Buildings can't want.

Donald Rumsfeld

BuildingsHouseWhiteSayWant

I have an evolving relationship with my father, and his memory, especially the older I get. I know that some of the things that interested him are things that interest me.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

FatherRelationshipMemoryMeKnow

I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy.

Cher

TrustStupidLazyHimLikeHe

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