I am passionate about everything in my life--first and foremost, passi…

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I am passionate about everything in my life--first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that's a dangerous person to be in this society, not just because I'm a woman, but because it's such a fundamentally anti-intellectual, anti-critical thinking society. --bell hooks ✨ Bell Hooks (1996). Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies, p.110, Psychology Press
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