Leah

“…there is not a day of my life that I am not critiquing myself to see if my politics are borne out in the way that I live and the way that I talk and present myself.”
― bell hooks, Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

“Our struggle is also a struggle of memory against forgetting.”
― bell hooks, Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

“…“white supremacy” is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not involve force (i.e slavery, apartheid) than the term “internalized racism”- a term most often used to suggest that black people have absorbed negative feelings and attitudes about blackness. The term “white supremacy” enables us to recognize not only that black people are socialized to embody the values and attitudes of white supremacy, but we can exercise “white supremacist control” over other black people.”
― bell hooks, Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

“…move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective as well as individual change.”
― bell hooks, Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black