Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us.
Bell HooksThe power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.
Bell HooksAssumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity.
Bell Hooks[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.
Bell HooksOnly grown-ups think that the things children say come out of nowhere. We know they come from the deepest parts of ourselves.
Bell HooksI see myself, in terms of the question of capitalism, as I would support democratic socialism over a capitalist system, because any approach... or participatory economics, which is another great model that people like Michael Albert are putting out there... any system that encourages us to think about interdependency, and to be able to use the world's resources in a wiser way, for the good of the whole, would be better for the world than capitalism.
Bell Hooks