Sam

“Indeed, men who feel, who love, often hide their emotional awareness from other men for fear of being attacked and shamed. This is the big secret we all keep together—the fear of patriarchal maleness that binds everyone in our culture. We cannot love what we fear. That is why so many religious traditions teach us that there is no fear in love.”
― bell hooks, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

“Feminism makes it possible for women and men to know love.”
― bell hooks, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

“Simply put, feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation and oppression. I liked this definition because it does not imply that men were the enemy.”
― bell hooks, Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

“...you can jail revolutionaries, but you can’t jail the revolution.

You might run a liberator like Eldridge Cleaver out of the country, but you can’t run liberation out of the country.

You might murder a freedom fighter like Bobby Hutton, but you can’t murder freedom fighting.

And if you do, you’ll come up with answers that don’t answer,
explanations that don’t explain,
you’ll come up with conclusions that don’t conclude

And you’ll come up with people that you thought should be acting like pigs that’s acting like people and instead moving on pigs.”
― Fred Hampton