WOW! Tricycle magazine offers us an archive article for this holiday weekend. It’s longer than normal but there’s so much here from Gloria Watkins aka bell hooks that the entire article is provided should you have the desire and time to read it.

If you’re just looking for highlights here are a few that jumped out at me:

• Our true self transcends gender, race, religion and any other isms in our culture.
• “If you’re attached to being a victim, there is no hope.”
• “Things are always more complex than they seem. That’s more useful and more difficult than the idea that there is a right and wrong, or a good or bad, and you just decide what side you’re on.”
• Every teacher is challenged by their culture and upbringing including Thich Nhat Hanh
• “Yes, I can use my rage, but only if there’s something else there with that rage.”

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Agent of Change: An Interview with bell hooks

An interview with bell hooks by Helen Tworkov

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.Helen Tworkov is Tricycle‘s founding editor and author of Zen in America: Profiles of Five Teachers (1989). She’s also the co-author of Turning Confusion Into Clarity: A Guide to the Foundation Practices of Tibetan Buddhism (2014) and In Love With the World: A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying (2019), which she wrote with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche.

bell hooks (1952–2021) was an acclaimed intellectual, feminist theorist, cultural critic, writer, and Distinguished Professor-in-Residence at Berea College in her native Kentucky, where she also founded the bell hooks Institute.