Even when people capitalize my name, I don't freak out, even though that would not be my choice.
Bell HooksPower feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us.
Bell HooksClass is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in educational settings.
Bell Hooks. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression.
Bell HooksThis fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men feel the loss. Ultimately, one of the emotional costs of allegiance to patriarchy is to be seen as unworthy of trust. If women and girls in patriarchal culture are taught to see every male, including the males with whom we are intimate, as potential rapists and murderers, then we cannot offer them our trust, and without trust there is no love.
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