Quote by Bell Hooks
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out

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

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Im so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer. – Bell Hooks

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

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Death is with you all the time you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but its not unfamiliar to you. Its always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life. – Bell Hooks

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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty. – Camryn Manheim

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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Women being pitted each other another in Hollywood is an old tactic, but its not real at all. – Shirley MacLaine

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[W]omen are meant to be loved, not to be understood. – Oscar Wilde, “The Sphinx without a Secret,” 1891

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