What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.bell hooks
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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.
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For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
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No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.
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I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.
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I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.
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Became,
Begun,
Black,
Establishment,
Free,
Goal,
Had,
Male,
Movement,
Oppression,
Patriarchy,
Primary
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Became,
Begun,
Black,
Establishment,
Free,
Goal,
Had,
Male,
Movement,
Oppression,
Patriarchy,
Primary
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