Within the new self-help books for women, patriarachy and male domination are rarely identified as forces that lead to the oppression, exploitation, and domination of women. Instead, these books suggest that individual relationships between men and women can be changed solely by women making the right choices.
Bell HooksWriting and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.
Bell HooksOne of the greatest difficulties the left faces in reaching out to masses of people in America is its profound disrespect of spirituality and religious lifeโฆpeople on the left need to acknowledge โ we need to grapple with โ the question of religion.
Bell HooksIf we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege.
Bell HooksWhen women and men understand that working to eradicate patriarchal domination is a struggle rooted in the longing to make a world where everyone can live fully and freely, then we know our work to be a gesture of love. Let us draw upon that love to heighten our awareness, deepen our compassion, intensify our courage and strengthen our commitment.
Bell HooksAny black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all that is good remains wedded to the very logic of Western metaphysical dualism that is the heart of racist binary thinking. Such thinking is not liberatory. Like the racist educational ideology it mirrors and imitates, it invites a closing of the mind.
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