Death There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by... bell hooks 11
Smile I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and just smile at everyone who walked by. Like,... bell hooks 6
Change Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope. bell hooks 19
Freedom The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech. bell hooks 10
Future To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to... bell hooks 10
Alone I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept... bell hooks 15
Art All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the... bell hooks 15
Death Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes... bell hooks 21
