American - Critic | September 25, 1952 -
Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
bell hooks
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
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An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.
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What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force.
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I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.
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I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.
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In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we have no time to love.
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In this culture, the phrase 'black woman' is not synonymous with 'tender,' or 'gentle.' It's as if those words couldn't possibly speak to the reality of black females.
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The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of people and that one did not have to continue the personal consciousness-raising and changing of one's viewpoint.
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I don't think you can hate anything that you know intimately. There is no fine line separating love from hate because there's a deep chasm separating love from hate.
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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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