

“as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves”
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“To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.”
― All About Love: New Visions
― All About Love: New Visions

“I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to talk about the fact that we cannot educate for critical consciousness if we have a group of people who cannot access Fanon, Cabral, or Audre Lorde because they can’t read or write. How did Malcolm X radicalize his consciousness? He did it through books. If you deprive working-class and poor black people of access to reading and writing, you are making them that much farther removed from being a class that can engage in revolutionary resistance.”
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“Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.”
― Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies
― Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies
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