Jojo

“If consummers want to be entertained, and the images shown us as entertaining are images of violent dehumanization, it makes sense that these acts become more acceptable in our daily lives and that we become less likely to respond to them with moral outrage or concern. Were we all seeing more images of loving human interaction, it would undoubtedly have a positive impact in our lives.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“The mass media dwells on and perpetuates an ethic of domination and violence because our image makers have more intimate knowledge of these realities than they have with the realities of love.”
― bell hooks

“Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of being. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Brave Enough: A Collection of Inspirational Quotes

“Nowadays we go to a movie and must watch commercials first. The relaxed, receptive state of surrender we like to reserve for the [...] film [...] is now given over to advertising where our senses and our sensibilities are assaulted against our will”
― bell hooks