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

“A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving... There can be no love without justice.”
― bell hooks, Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

“I was born upon the prairie, where the wind blew free, and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures, and where everything drew a free breath.. I lived like my fathers before me, and like them, I lived happily.

-Ten Bears, Yamparika Comanche Chief”
― Ten Bears Comanche Nation

“Most people have no understanding of the myriad ways feminism has positively changed all our lives. Sharing feminist thought and practice sustains feminist movement. Feminist knowledge is for everybody.”
― Bell Hooks, Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics