Famous quotes by Critics

"Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?"

Bell Hooks, Critic

"No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women"

Bell Hooks, Critic

"It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self, past the ego"

Bell Hooks, Critic

"Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things"

Bell Hooks, Critic

"We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved"

Bell Hooks, Critic

"The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech"

Bell Hooks, Critic

"Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible"

Bell Hooks, Critic

"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy"

Bell Hooks, Critic

"I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness"

Bell Hooks, Critic

"I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us"

Bell Hooks, Critic

"When I was a little boy, I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me, it was sometimes both"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was, unfortunately, rare with me"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"School is a foretaste of life"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness, and kindness, to brutality and baseness"

Georg Brandes, Critic

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