Melissa Perkins

“...consider the possibility that to love blackness is dangerous in a white supremacist culture- so threatening, so serious a breach in the fabric of the social order, that death is the punishment.”
― bell hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation

“Cultures of domination rely on the cultivation of fear as a way to ensure obedience.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“Now is just what's happening – minus everything you think.”
― Adyashanti

“The belittling of anyone's attempt to name a context within they were wounded, were made a victim, is a form of shaming. It is psychological terrorism. Shaming breaks our hearts.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions