Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see … - Bell Hooks

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I just feel like I'm an artist that still has set a standard for artists that come up to follow and be like. . . So, yeah, I guess I'm a legend somewhat, I guess in my own right, but I still got a long ways to go.

Bell Hooks

Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.

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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 of hope and possibility. Not this “In order to love you, I must make you something else”. That’s what domination is all about, that in order to be close to you, I must possess you, remake and recast you.

Anothers, Close, Differences, Domination, Love, Order

The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom.

Begin, Choose, Love, Moments, Move, Moving

It is important and vital is to keep that education for critical consciousness around intersectionalities, so that people are able to not focus on one thing and blame one group, but be able to look holistically at the way intersectionality informs all of us: whiteness, gender, sexual preferences, etc. Only then can we have a realistic handle on the political and cultural world we live within.

Focus, Handle, People, Political, Thing

Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.

Aims, Feminist, Inspiring, Justice, Live Life, Lives

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

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