Hooks

Famous quotes containing the word hooks:

    We are rarely able to interact only with folks like ourselves, who think as we do. No matter how much some of us deny this reality and long for the safety and familiarity of sameness, inclusive ways of knowing and living offer us the only true way to emancipate ourselves from the divisions that limit our minds and imaginations.
    —bell hooks (b. 1955)

    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 (b. c. 1955)

    Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
    —bell hooks (b. c. 1955)