The process begins with the individual womanโs acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization.
Bell HooksRemember, care is a dimension of love, but simply giving care does not mean we are loving.
Bell HooksMany spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
Bell HooksI get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.
Bell HooksWhite women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.
Bell HooksSadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity, border crossing, subjectivity constructed out of plurality, the vast majority of folks in this society still believe in a notion of identity that is rooted in a sense of essential traits and characteristics that are fixed and static.
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