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bell hooks Quotes

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Justice Racism Ending Criticism

I thought I had everything going for me. I wasn't listening to nobody. And my dad was like, 'Uh-uh, you can't make money from music. You have to be a doctor, a lawyer, engineer. Something that's going to do something for this world. Music doesn't do anything.' And I had to fight that, his passion, and fight the society that I was from.

Music Passion Money Fight Me World

I haven't had trouble with writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, cliched writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn't have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments.

Good Writing Voice Think Moments

I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.

Science Wrong Earth Student Drift

My mom was a model. She had me at 20, so she was a young mother.

Mother Me Mom Young She Model

I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference.

Make A Difference Country Person Want

No, I'm a flirtatious person; I'll flirt all day long, but it really is hard to get into that when I'm so into the music, and I'm in the studio all day long and all night sometimes. That's not an exaggeration.

Music Day Night Long Person Hard

Managing a country is like managing a company in many ways. It maybe involves more complicated issues, but it's the same skills.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Country Complicated Skills More Same

Every country faces its own obstacles to reaching gender equality, and to make a real difference, we must change public policies in tandem with stereotypes, attitudes, and behaviors.

Jose Angel Gurria

Change Equality Obstacles Gender Own

It is important to know that what I do is not artistic. I am just a film-maker. I live how I live and I do what I do, which is recording moments of my life as I move ahead. And I do it because I am compelled to. Necessity, not artistry, is the true line you can follow in my life and work.

Life Work Live I Am My Life Moments

Every airplane sale overseas generates U.S. jobs.

Dennis Muilenburg

Airplane Every Sale Jobs Overseas

The lighting is so important. One thing that makes me nuts about the lighting now is that they spend an enormous amount of time lighting the set, the background. But the most important thing in the scene is the actor.

Time Me Important Now Actor Nuts

I'm a very girlie girl, but I often find the heroes of my books trying to take over the story. In truth, I enjoy writing the male point of view more than any other.

Girl Truth Writing Story View Enjoy

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