Acting Quote by Bell Hooks

“[I]n so far as postmodern politics involves a '[t]heoretical retreat from the problem of domination within capitalism,' it is here, in this silent suspension…

— Slavoj Žižek

“Concurrently, the growing class power and public voice of conservative and liberal well-to-do black folks easily obscures the class cruelty these individuals enact both…

— bell hooks

Black Power simply means: Look at me, I'm here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand that I…

— Whitney M. Young

I think it is important to acknowledge the extent to which the black middle class tends to rely on a kind of imagined struggle…

— Angela Davis

Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can't win... the view that American society is so hopelessly…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“The term 'black' was given a rebirth by the black youth revolt. As reborn, it does not refer to the particular color of any…

— Chancellor Williams

“The nascent capitalism of modernity is a sacrificial economy that worships money as fetish and sacrifices the “subjective corporeality of the Indian and African…

— Mark Lewis Taylor

“In the Negro world, as in the white world, Negroes who have money band together and try to ignore the existence of their unluckier…

— James Baldwin

During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred…

— Anonymous

The revolution is that we can be anything. We don't have to be one thing or the other. The idea that it is my…

— Courtney A. Kemp

“When I was a child, to call someone 'black' was an insult, a curse word, something that made you fight. But to me it…

— Bonnie Greer

...in any land, in any country under modern free competition, to lay any class of weak and despised people, be they white, black, or…

— Anonymous