Ashley

“He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.”
― bell hooks, Black Genius: African-American Solutions to African-American Problems

“Patriarchy has no gender.”
― bell hooks, Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom

“When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism as prejudice or domination (especially domination that involves coercive control), they cannot recognize the ways their actions support and affirm the very structure of racist domination and oppression that they wish to see eradicated.”
― bell hooks, Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black