Belonging: A Culture of Place
bell hooks
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“With reciprocity all things do not need to be equal in order for acceptance and mutuality to thrive. If equality is evoked as the only standard by which it is deemed acceptable for people to meet across boundaries and create community, then there is little hope. Fortunately, mutuality is a more constructive and positive foundation for the building of ties that allow for differences in status, position, power, and privilege whether determined by race, class, sexuality, religion, or nationality.”
“We are born and have our being in a place of memory. We chart our lives by everything we remember from the mundane moment to the majestic. We know ourselves through the art and act of remembering. Memories offer us a world where there is no death, where we are sustained by rituals of regard and recollection”
“When we love the earth, we are able to love ourselves more fully.”
“Living away from my native place I became more consciously Kentuckian than I was when I lived at home. This is what the experience of exile can do, change your mind, utterly transform one's perception of the world of home.”
“To tend the earth is always then to tend our destiny, our freedom and our hope.”
“To me the family has always been that place of familiarity that holds and hurts us.”
“What has become clear is that education for critical consciousness coupled with anti-racist activism that works to change all our thinking so that we construct identity and community on the basis of openness, shared struggle, and inclusive working together offers us the continued possibility of eradicating racism.”
“We must all decolonize our minds in Western culture to be able to think differently about nature, abut the destuction humans cause.”
“Nature was th eplace where one could escape the world of man made constuctions of race and identity.”
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