Bell Hooks Quotes

The most important part of ourselves is the mind, and it has been rather inaccessible.

You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

I am mentally bifocal.

Everything for me is visual. That's just how my head works.

It's all in the mind, you know.

I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.

What do you hang on the walls of your mind?

Whatever man does he must do first in his mind.

Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that?

I'm a visual thinker. Research tells us that only 20 per cent of people think visually. So what about the other 80 per cent? Don't they think in pictures? I mean if you imagine washing and preparing potatoes you visualise the process, right?

The weirdest thing about a mind is that you can have the most intense things going on in there, but no one else can see them.

I think more with my head - things are 90 per cent in your head, and everything else comes after that.

Everything I think is in pictures.

There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.

The big show is inside my head.

Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images.

Imagination is my best friend.

There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.

Imagination is something you do alone.

The mind is an enchanting thing.

All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.