Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging th…

Bell Hooks
208 citations
Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness. ✨ bell hooks (2003). Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem, p.103, Simon and Schuster
Humanity Reading
11

More Author Quotes

Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy—“to stand outside”—comes to me in those moments when I am immersed so deeply in the act of th … ▶
We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic. ✨ bell hooks, Amalia Mesa-Bains (2017). Homegrown: … ▶
To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity. ✨ Killing Rage: Ending Racism. Book by Bell Hooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 1995.

Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness. ✨ bell hooks (2003). Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem, p.103, Simon and Schuster

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes