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“…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

tags: change

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

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“Even in the face of powerful structures of domination, it remains possible for each of us, especially those of us who are members of oppressed and/or exploited groups as well as those radical visionaries who may have race, class, and sex privilege, to define and determine alternative standards, to decide on the nature and extent of compromise.”
― bell hooks, Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

tags: privilege

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“…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

tags: introspection, politics

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“Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression in the family context and in all other intimate relationships. It is that political movement which most radically addresses the person – the personal – citing the need for the transformation of self, of relationships, so that we might be better able to act in a revolutionary manner, challenging and resisting domination, transforming the world outside the self.”
― bell hooks, Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

tags: feminism

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