We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.
Bell HooksOur hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.
Bell HooksI'm tired of the naked, raped, beaten black woman body. I want to see an image of black femaleness that alters our universe in some way.
Bell HooksSince the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural identity and be โjust humansโ within the framework of white supremacy has usually meant that subordinate groups must surrender their identities, beliefs, values, and assimilate by adopting the values and beliefs of privileged-class whites, rather than promoting racial harmony this thinking has created a fierce cultural protectionism.
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