Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Bell Hooks

Quote by Bell Hooks

“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.”

Quote by Bell Hooks

Create image

Author

Bell Hooks
Bell Hooks

Bell Hooks, born Gloria Jean Watkins, is an American author, scholar, and activist. Her work primarily focuses on issues of race, gender, and social justice, particularly on feminist and black feminist thought. Hooks' works include novels, poetry, academic writings, and autobiographies, and her writing style is beloved by readers for its profound social insight and desire for change. more

You May Also Like

“Paper Matches My aunts washed dishes while the uncles squirted each other on the lawn with garden hoses. Why are we in here, I said, and they are out there? That’s the way it is, said Aunt Hetty, the shriveled-up one. I have the rages that small animals have, being small, being animal. Written on me was a message, “At Your Service,” like a book of paper matches. One by one we were taken out and struck. We come bearing supper, our heads on fire.”

WaySaidBookAnimalTakenFireWrittenPaperMessagesGardenRageDishesUnclesAuntLawnsSupperSmall Animals
Book:Blackwater
Create image

“Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down! - Abigail”

KnowsI CanDoneNightNextWishParentBlackCan DoSunSawsMinesTerribleDearEdgesBreatheIndianPillowWish YouI Can Do ItWork DoneReckoningCrucibleAbigail
Book:Arthur Miller's collected plays: with an introduction
Create image