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I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place.

~Bell Hooks

Topics: Body Girl Interested Like Living Living Room Me Mind Move Moving Nest Place Really Rigorous Room State Stay Travel

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What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.

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Topics: Became Begun Black Establishment Free Goal Had Male Movement Oppression Patriarchy People Primary

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No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.

~Bell Hooks

Topics: About America Black Existence Focus Group Had Identity Men Other Out People Talked Tends White Women Women Are

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I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.

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Topics: Acting Black Each Get Help Know Like Men Men And Women Never Other People Support Tired Women You

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I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.

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Topics: Attention Black Health Number One Thing Our Paying People Should Thing Think Women I Think

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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.

~Bell Hooks

Topics: Black Need People Self-Esteem Seriously Take Think I Think

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The working-class black Southern Christian culture I come from still nurtures me, and I mean directly, daily.

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Topics: Black Christian Come Culture Daily Directly Me Mean Southern Still Working-Class

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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.

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Topics: Change Enormous Excess Hardly Live Once Only People Realize Simply Social Social Change Want You

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Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.

~Bell Hooks

Topics: Became Black Control Convince Did Else Everyone Everyone Else Individuals Inferiority Mass Mass Media Media Primary Since Still Tool Used Viewers Would

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Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: September 25th, 1952

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