It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.
Bell HooksFeminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt with tremendous ease that which merely appears radical or subversive
Bell HooksThe 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 HooksThe one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.
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