Bell Hooks Quotes

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

Language cares.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.

The vocabulary I use has to reflect the people I'm trying to communicate with.

Any friendship or relationship is about a language.

I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.

I'm really interested in how we understand each other - and whether we can understand each other.

I am not good at making people understand certain things.

He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.

Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?

One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.

You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key.

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

Communication is important.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

Speech is civilization itself.

Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human.

How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?

I have no message.