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- Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot…
- I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining, come to understand…
- To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this…
- If only one party in the relationship is working to create love, to create the space of emotional connection, the dominator model remains in place…
- Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.
- Patriarchy, like any system of domination (for example, racism), relies on socializing everyone to believe that in all human relations there is an inferior and…
- 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 ever…
- I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.
- One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..
- Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.
- I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that is redemptive, full…
- ..Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one’s own use - need not be…
- None of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of being immodest, and…
- As more people of color raise our consciousness and refuse to be pitted against one another, the forces of neo-colonial white supremacist domination must work…
- We fear that evaluating our needs and then carefully choosing partners will reveal that there is no one for us to love. Most of us…
- Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. These workshops are important, yet they…
- One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness –…
- One of the greatest difficulties the left faces in reaching out to masses of people in America is its profound disrespect of spirituality and religious…
- The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search…
- This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men feel the loss.…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle