Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
Bell HooksRepresentation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind.
Bell HooksTo live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.
Bell HooksWhen we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
Bell HooksA distinction must be made between that writing which enables us to hold on to life even as we are clinging to old hurts and wounds and that writing which offers to us a space where we are able to confront reality in such a way that we live more fully. Such writing is not an anchor that we mistakenly cling to so as not to drown. It is writing that truly rescues, that enables us to reach the shore, to recover.
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