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to really choose to love is heroic and the outrageous pursuit of hope
discovering bell hooks
Speaking Freely: Bell Hooks
bell hooks speaks eloquently, lovingly and powerfully about the cultural landscape in america. it's hard to believe this interview was only recorded 9 years ago. bell hooks is interviewed by Ken Paulson of the First Amendment Center.
i was immediately engaged with the way she flipped and reversed Joseph Campbell's heroic journey to highlight the narrative of domination rather than the heroic search for love.
i know i'm late to discover bell hooks, but i'm hooked. bell hooks is my hero!
"I believe that in our deeply anti-intellectual society, most people read and most people think along very narrow lines."
"I believe that I am the embodiment of that classical idea of the intellectual, as someone who really wants to be whole, and part of wholeness is, I really do like the people, the mass, I really want to be able to write books that are touching the pulse of a diverse audience."
"When you live in a country that makes truth something that is associated with the painful, that should not be spoken, it becomes hard to get people to value speaking freely."
"Our language is incredibly binary, so we really have to work to be inclusive."
"People are really hungry for truth, and that hunger is something that unites us across class, race, sexual preference and practice, religion. And i see the hope, the hope that i feel within my own self and with other people is that hunger for truth and for ways to live our lives more fully in a manner that's more fulfilling. And it's that hunger that keeps a place for the dissenting voice, that keeps the place for speaking freely, because that's both an endangered space, and a space on the other hand where we have more people than ever before who are hungering to hear that dissenting voice."
"So that's the paradox that we live within: a society that is full of promise and possibility, and a society that on the other hand will close things down if people feel they need to, to protect the lifestyles ot the belief systems that they think are the only important belief systems, and that's the difficulty, but i'm one who believes in the outrageous pursuit of hope."
Thanks to Freedom Forum for posting this video!
i was immediately engaged with the way she flipped and reversed Joseph Campbell's heroic journey to highlight the narrative of domination rather than the heroic search for love.
i know i'm late to discover bell hooks, but i'm hooked. bell hooks is my hero!
"I believe that in our deeply anti-intellectual society, most people read and most people think along very narrow lines."
"I believe that I am the embodiment of that classical idea of the intellectual, as someone who really wants to be whole, and part of wholeness is, I really do like the people, the mass, I really want to be able to write books that are touching the pulse of a diverse audience."
"When you live in a country that makes truth something that is associated with the painful, that should not be spoken, it becomes hard to get people to value speaking freely."
"Our language is incredibly binary, so we really have to work to be inclusive."
"People are really hungry for truth, and that hunger is something that unites us across class, race, sexual preference and practice, religion. And i see the hope, the hope that i feel within my own self and with other people is that hunger for truth and for ways to live our lives more fully in a manner that's more fulfilling. And it's that hunger that keeps a place for the dissenting voice, that keeps the place for speaking freely, because that's both an endangered space, and a space on the other hand where we have more people than ever before who are hungering to hear that dissenting voice."
"So that's the paradox that we live within: a society that is full of promise and possibility, and a society that on the other hand will close things down if people feel they need to, to protect the lifestyles ot the belief systems that they think are the only important belief systems, and that's the difficulty, but i'm one who believes in the outrageous pursuit of hope."
Thanks to Freedom Forum for posting this video!
CUNY-TV Studios at the Ciry University Graduate Center
2002
https://www.youtube.com/@FreedomForum
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