Like many white liberals, Ken sees the whiteness of his social life as more an accident of circumstance than a choice. He would welcome greater diversity in the neighbourhood. However, he does not consciously do enough work either in his social life or in the larger community to make that diversity possible.
Bell HooksThe fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.
Bell HooksWriting and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.
Bell HooksYoung people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.
Bell HooksIt is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term โfeminism,โ to focus on the fact that to be โfeministโ in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.
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