I think it's crazy for us to think that people don't understand what's being foregrounded in their lives at a given point in time.
Bell HooksMost of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse.
Bell HooksI would also say that, in practice, many more Americans are anarchists than would ever use that term.
Bell HooksWar in its essence is another form of capitalism. Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them. So much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group.
Bell HooksIn order for me to engage in a revolutionary struggle for collective Black self-determination, I have to engage feminism because that becomes the vehicle by which I project myself as a female into the heart of the struggle, but the heart of the struggle does not begin with feminism. It begins with an understanding of domination and with a critique of domination in all its forms.
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