Bell Hooks Quotes

Education is the way to move mountains, to build bridges, to change the world. Education is the path to the future. I believe that education is indeed freedom.

Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as conscious beings and consciousness as consciousness intent upon the world.

When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin.

Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming.

It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.

What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?

Education is freedom.

Freedom can occur only through education.

Only the educated are free.

Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and whole worlds of possibility opened out that I had never guessed existed. The language was on fire and sang of liberation.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

When I sing I don't feel like it's me. I feel I am fabulous, like I'm 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I'm whoever I want to be.

My dad always associated information with liberation. He was very much in that Malcolm X tradition.

Learning has freed more men than all the armies in human history.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

I attended university because I have always felt that education is freedom and power.

Love liberates you and gives you the power to make the impossible possible.

Your educators can only be your liberators.

In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a necessary part of your business, to teach them how to perform their parts.

I can't imagine I could have become the person I am now without books. Books became synonymous with freedom. They showed that you could open doors and walk through.

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.

I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom.