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

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• I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.

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• I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.

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• I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.

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• I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.

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• I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

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• But love is really more of an interactive process. It’s about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun.

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• The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

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• Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.

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• I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words.

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• What’s really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don’t even really understand that equality hasn’t happened with the pay force.

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• No woman has ever written enough.

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• I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.

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• When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.

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• Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

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• 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 unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

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• For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

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• 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 their aloneness.

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• I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.

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• I’m so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.

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Birth:	25th September, 1952
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Critic

About

Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name bell hooks is an American author, feminist, and social activist. She took her nom de plume from her maternal great grandmother Bell Blair Hooks. Her early education took place in racially segregated public schools, and she wrote of great adversities when making the transition to an integrated school, where teachers and students were predominantly white. She graduated from Hopkinsville High School in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, earned her B.A. in English from Stanford University in 1973, and earned her M.A. in English from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 1976. In 1983, after several years of teaching and writing, she completed her doctorate in the literature department from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a dissertation on author Toni Morrison. She also taught at Yale. Salvation: Black People and Love: Hurston Wright Legacy Award nominee 2002 nominated.

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