Frases de bell hooks

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“O amor é uma combinação de cuidado, compromisso, conhecimento, responsabilidade, respeito e confiança.”

“Ao contrário do que fomos ensinados a pensar, o sofrimento desnecessário e não escolhido nos machuca, mas não precisa nos ferir por toda a vida. Isso nos marca, mas o que permitimos que a marca do nosso sofrimento se torne está em nossas próprias mãos.”

“A luta de classes está intrinsecamente ligada à luta pelo fim do racismo.”

“Se uma mulher sente que precisa de algo além de si mesma para legitimar e validar sua existência, ela já está dando seu poder de ser autodefinida, sua agência.”

“I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison.”

“as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves”

“Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.”

“There is light in darkness, you just have to find it.”

“To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination.”

“Usually, when people talk about the "strength" of black women…. they ignore the reality that to be strong in the face of oppression is not the same as overcoming oppression, that endurance is not to be confused with transformation.”

“If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.”

“Patriarchy has no gender.”

“Without justice there can be no love.”

“The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our ‘natural’ condition.”

“Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.”

“No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women… When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.”

“Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world.”

“The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.”

“Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.”

“Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power—not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.”

“It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.”

“We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.”

“Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.”

“When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise. They tell us paradise is our home and love our true destiny.”

“Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.”

“Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us.”

“To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients - care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication.”

“Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.”

“Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication.”

“It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.”

“Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love.”

“As more people of color raise our consciousness and refuse to be pitted against one another, the forces of neo-colonial white supremacist domination must work harder to divide and conquer.”

“Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.”