Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
Bell HooksYou are not going to destroy this imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy by creating your own version of it.
Bell HooksThe most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously is living with a core of healthy self-esteem. You will face reality, you will not delude yourself.
Bell HooksWhen liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism as prejudice or domination (especially domination that involves coercive control), they cannot recognize the ways their actions support and affirm the very structure of racist domination and oppression that they wish to see eradicated.
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