Able Quote by Bell Hooks

I think feminist pedagogy should not simply expose students to a particularized academic scholarship but that it should also envision the possibility of activism…

— Chandra Talpade Mohanty

You are not going to destroy this imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy by creating your own version of it,

— Bell Hooks

“When we leave the realm of cinema, it is obvious that the dynamics of white supremacist capitalist patriarchy---which has historically represented black females as…

— Bell Hooks

Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No one has…

— Bell Hooks

“Certainly from the standpoint of white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, the hope is that desires for the “primitive” or fantasies about the Other can be…

— Juliet Schor

Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.

— Bell Hooks

..Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one’s own use - need not…

— Bell Hooks

I propose in the following discussion to call one's own labor, and the equivalent exchange of one's own labor for the labor of others,…

— Franz Oppenheimer

I'm not tied to the news cycle. I can do an episode on cultural appropriation, not on Rachel Dolezal. We might make a joke…

— Moshe Kasher

I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the…

— Grover Cleveland

As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy.

— William Proxmire

Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange…

— Friedrich Nietzsche