I think we have to choose, what are the issues that really matter? We have to trust that.
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 HooksKnowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.
Bell HooksI would also say that, in practice, many more Americans are anarchists than would ever use that term.
Bell Hooks..Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for oneโs own use - need not be synonymous with exploitation. This is especially true of cultural appropriation. The โuseโ one makes of what is appropriated is the crucial factor.
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