Bell Hooks Quotes


Solidarity is not the same as support. To experience solidarity, we must have a community of interests, shared beliefs and goals around which to unite, to build Sisterhood. Support can be occasional. It can be given and just as easily withdrawn. Solidarity requires sustained, ongoing commitment.


Citations

hooks, bell. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center. South End Press, 1984, p. 64.

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Bell Hooks
Bell Hooks
  • Born: September 25, 1952
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Author, Academic, Feminist Social Activist

Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name bell hooks, is an American author, professor, feminist, and social activist. The name "bell hooks" is borrowed from her maternal great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks.