Yearning Quotes

“True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.”
― Bell Hooks, Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

“There is a definite distinction between that marginality which is imposed by oppressive structures and that marginality one chooses as site of resistance, as location of radical openness and possibility.”
― bell hooks, Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

“Black liberation struggle must be re-visioned so that it is no longer equated with maleness. We need a revolutionary vision of black liberation, one that emerges from a feminist standpoint and addresses the collective plight of black people.”
― bell hooks, Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

“No need to hear your voice when I can talk about you better than you can speak about yourself. No need to hear your voice. Only tell me about your pain. I want to know your story. And then I will tell it back to you in a new way. Tell it back to you in such a way that it has become mine, my own. Re-writing you I write myself anew. I am still author, authority. I am still colonizer, the speaking subject and you are now at the center of my talk.”
― bell hooks, Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics