Quote by: bell hooks

To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone. Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what I should be. School was the place where I could forget that self and, through ideas, reinvent myself.


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Author Bio


  • Namebell hooks
  • DescriptionAmerican author, feminist, and social activist
  • AliasesGloria Jean Watkins
  • BornSeptember 25, 1952
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPhilosopher
  • WorksAin't I A Woman?; All About Love: New Visions; We Real Cool: Black Men And Masculinity; Feminist Theory: From Margin To Center