Critique Quote by Bell Hooks

There's a tacit agreement today that the white male is the only legitimate target for any and all satire, criticism, and so forth. And…

— Jack Nicholson

[The media's] fantasy of an America bristling with racists allows them to portray any criticism of our massively incompetent and dangerous president as just…

— Ann Coulter

“We keep coming back to the question of representation because identity is always about representation. People forget that when they wanted white women to…

— bell hooks

It's always fair to criticize, to question, to engage about things like whitewashing and violence against women and choices of lack of diversity. All…

— Laeta Kalogridis

There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue.

— James Cromwell

“If feminism can understand the patriarchy, it's important to question why so many feminists struggle to understand whiteness as a political structure in the…

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

American cultural institutions seem so bent on preserving the values of "Western civilization," the mythical "Whitetown," that welearn about one another's cultures the same…

— Ishmael Reed

Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable…

— Theodor Adorno

I cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded this is. Withholding criticism and ignoring differences are racism in its purest form. Yet these cultural experts fail…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

We need to challenge the dominant culture: by ethics, principles and values.

— Tariq Ramadan

“In a racially imperialist nation such as ours, it is the dominant race that reserves for itself the luxury of dismissing racial identity while…

— bell hooks

Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.

— Clifford Geertz