"Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender. Feminism must involve consciousness of capitalism (I mean the feminism that I relate to, and there are multiple feminisms, right). So it has to involve a consciousness of capitalism and racism and colonialism and post-colonialities, and ability and more genders than we can even imagine and more sexualities than we ever thought we could name."

-- Angela Davis

#Mean Quotes #Names Quotes #Racism Quotes

“The upside of being a part of a post-civil rights generation is that black folks really are more diverse. But the flash point for that diversity is caught up in Hip Hop. So you have a generation that says, 'I'm gonna wear my sneakers, and I'm gonna wear my pants how I like themThen you have a generation that says, 'I did not get bit by dogs for you to conduct yourself this way. Then the younger generation says, 'Yes, you did. This is what freedom means.'”
“A good film is also a documentary”
“Giving birth is priestess work; it requires a woman to pass through a painful and dangerous initiation in which she journeys to the threshold between worlds and risks her own life to help another soul cross over.”

Source : Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, Touchstone
“He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.”

Source : "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. June 23, 2004.
“Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too.”
“There should be a course in first grade on love.”
“I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.”
“the captain is supposed to go down with the ship" . "unless the first mate knocks him out and throws him in a lifeboat”

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