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bell hooks
The academy is...
The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.
Secrets find a...
Secrets find a way out in sleep . . . It is the place where there is no pretense.
Being oppressed means...
Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
Source: Feminist Theory, ch.1,...
Usually, when people...
Usually, when people talk about the strength of black women . . . . they ignore the reality that to be strong in the...
It is crucial...
It is crucial for the future of the Black liberation struggle that we remain ever mindful that ours is a shared...
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. . . no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.
She wants to...
She wants to express herself -- to speak her mind. To them it is just talking back.
It is poetry...
It is poetry that changes everything.
Source: Black Is a Woman's Color, 1989.
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[O]ne of the...
[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we...
. . .there...
. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions,...