Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.
Bell HooksI get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.
Bell HooksNone of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of being immodest, and acting courageously to bring issues of class- especially radical standpoints โ into the discourse of blackness is a gesture of militant defiance, one that runs counter to bourgeois insistence that we think of โmoneyโ in particular and class in general as private matters.
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