All BELL HOOKS Quotes about “Feelings”

“Love is an action, never simply a feeling.”
“â€¦â€œwhite supremacyâ€ is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not involve force (i.e slavery, apartheid) than the term â€œinternalized racismâ€- a term most often used to suggest that black people have absorbed negative feelings and attitudes about blackness. The term â€œwhite supremacyâ€ enables us to recognize not only that black people are socialized to embody the values and attitudes of white supremacy, but we can exercise â€œwhite supremacist controlâ€ over other black people.”
“To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility.”
“There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is too heavy. And sometimes the mountain top is difficult to reach with all our resources, factual and confessional, so we are just there, collectively grasping, feeling the limitations of knowledge, longing together, yearning for a way to reach that highest point. Even this yearning is a way to know.”
“Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white folks have prejudicial feelings about blacks (they could have such feelings and leave us alone) but because it is a system that promotes domination and subjugation?”
“To indoctrinate boys into the rules of patriarchy, we force them to feel pain and to deny their feelings.”
“Love is first and foremost exemplified by action - by practice - not solely by feeling.”
“You have to trust that if you are calling my name in a way that is offensive to me, I'm going to share it with you. But you also have to know what your feelings are behind calling me "bell."”

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