Bell Hooks Quotes

It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.

People want to adulate people.

People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.

Success! to thee, as to a God, men bend the knee.

Respected, I almost want to be revered, that's what I'm chasing.

Respect and fear are two different things.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

Fiona Shaw is a goddess to me.

We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.

Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown . . . Worship of a Hero is transcendent admiration of a Great Man. I say great men are still admirable; I say there is, at bottom, nothing else admirable! No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of men.

Me, the bard out of work, the Lord has applied to His service. In the very beginning, He gave me the order to sing His praises night and day. The Master summoned the minstrel to His True Court. He clothed me with the robe of His true honour and eulogy. Since then, the True Name had become my ambrosial food.

I worshipped my father.

I respect Dev saab greatly.

It's like, we all grow up thinking it would be so nice to have hundreds of people falling over themselves trying to grab us, telling us we're great, that they love us.

I used to wonder how anyone could treat a fellow human as God. I never understood why they would do this.

It's hard to not act like a fan when you're in these scenes with your heroes, but you can't do that because you respect everybody so much.

In America, they treat me like God.

Every time I meet Rahman sir, it's a fan moment for me. I don't take the fact that I am working with him lightly. I get excited every time I see and work with him. But I don't embarrass him.

I never really had a celebrity crush when I was little. I know some of my friends have posters up on their bedroom wall; I was never really about that.

I can't even compare ourselves with the Supremes. I adore the Supremes! I can't set myself up as comparison to people I'm in awe of.

I know who Cristiano Ronaldo is and he's a gorgeous looking guy. It would be an obscenity for him even to look at me as anything else but a mother figure while of course it is perfectly OK for me to look at him as a man.

Humility is preserved when I give credit where credit is due - to God.

Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.

Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by anything in him (and there is always much) that is incongruous with his greatness.

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.