Bell Hooks Quotes

If you get criticized, good - I don't think people get criticized enough. People talk behind your back and they criticize you, but they don't often come up and say it to you.

I'm honest about expressing my opinions. At the same time, I'm diplomatic in how I do critique things if I have a negative response.

To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.

Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.

It becomes obvious when people are sincere in their criticism and when they're not. I've learned over time that people will always have something to say.

I want to decouple this idea that critique is hatred.

Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.

A lot of people have said that I'm super-snarky and mean. But honesty is the only way to get people to change. It's very important to be constructively critical - give people alternatives and you're giving them a new way to see themselves.

If you want to make change, 'Show me how' can be a stronger, more effective approach than 'Just say no.' That's what I think.

Don't just crit their siticising.

The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.

You can learn a lot from criticism if you can take what's constructive out of it. If you read a review that starts with, 'This person is an idiot; who do they think they are?', you're not going to learn anything from that.

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

As far as criticism, I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for 'Rolling Stone' for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don't like is cruelty for cruelty's sake. You don't have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class.

Look, I'm not trying to be critical when I'm on the air.

Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy.

I hate cynicism - it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere.

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.

I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.

To criticize one's country is to do it a service and to pay it a compliment. It is a service because it may spur the country to do better than it is doing; it is a compliment because it evidences a belief that the country can do better than it is doing.

I don't have any problems with criticism.

I do not like negative attacks.

Snark describes a cynical position, and I'm not interested in that.

When I make criticism, it's constructive. It's not right only to focus on the negatives.