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bell hooks

"One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.."

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Donna Grant

"We are what we think about and meditate on. Look around people! America is a buffet of violence, a total immersion."

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Donna Grant

"Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves - and other animals."

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Donna Grant

"Cultural heritage define the uniqueness of individuals. Appreciate cultural diversity."

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Donna Grant

"The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy."

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Donna Grant

"We are all artificial and have been unnaturally changed by violence and unwholesome conditioning."

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Donna Grant

"Culture and holiness must be made compatible in the environment of the kingdom."

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Donna Grant

"The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else."

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"Once we got out of Jefferson Park, we rolled down the one window that worked so the world would know we had good taste in music."

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Donna Grant

"What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is young men only wish to do prestigious work."

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Donna Grant

"All cultures have things to learn from all other cultures. Don't get stuck in your culture! Go beyond it! Get out of your aquarium; get out of your farm; get out of your castle; break your bell jar! Give chance to other cultures and to other opinions! This is the best way for you to see the insufficiencies, absurdities and stupidities in your culture!"

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bell hooks
"I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place."

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bell hooks
"The confusion boys experience about their identity is heightened during adolescence. In many ways the fact that today's boy often has a wider range of emotional expression in early childhood, but if forced to suppress emotional awareness later on makes adolescence all the more stressful for boys. Tragically, were it not for the extreme violence that has erupted among teenage boys throughout our nation, the emotional life of boys would still be ignored. Although therapists tell us that mass media images of male violence and domination teach boys that violence is alluring and satisfying, when individual boys are violent, especially when they murder randomly, pundits tend to behave as though it were a mystery why boys are so violent."

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bell hooks
"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."

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bell hooks
"It is this dependency that became, and is, the breeding ground for abuses of power."

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bell hooks
"Patriarchal hip-hop ushered in a world where black males could declare that they were "keeping it real when what they were really doing was taking the dead patriarchal protest of the black power movement and rearticulating it in forms that, though entertaining, had for the most part no transformative power, no ability to intervene on the politics of domination, and turn the real lives of black men around."

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bell hooks
"I tell them that love is always there"that nothing can keep us from love if we dare to seek it and to treasure what we find."

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bell hooks
"As a black woman interested in feminist movement, I am often asked whether being black is more important than being a woman; whether feminist struggle to end sexist oppression is more important than the struggle to racism or vice versa. All such questions are rooted in competitive either/or thinking, the belief that the self is formed in opposition to an other...Most people are socialized to think in terms of opposition rather than compatibility. Rather than seeing anti-racist work as totally compatible with working to end sexist oppression, they often see them as two movements competing for first place."

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bell hooks
"Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune."

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"Men come to sex hoping that it will provide them with all of the emotional satisfaction that would have come from love. Most men think that sex will provide them with a sense of being alive, connected, that sex will offer closeness, intimacy, pleasure. And more often than not sex simply does not deliver the goods. This fact does not lead men to cease obsessing about sex; it intensifies their lust and their longing."

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bell hooks
"Most feminist groups began with women talking about how we saw ourselves and other women, how we acted. We openly confessed our fears and hatred of other women. We talked about how to combat jealousy, the politics of envy, and so on."

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