Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
— Oscar Wilde (via floralnymph)
So if you – the oppressed – hurt someone’s feelings, you’re just like the oppressor, right? Wrong. Oppression is not about hurt feelings. It is about the rights and opportunities that are not afforded to you because you belong to a certain group of people. When you use a racist slur you imply that non-whiteness is a bad thing, and thus publicly reinforce a system that denies POC the rights and opportunities of white people. Calling a white person a racist fuckhead doesn’t do any of that. Yes, it’s not very nice. And how effective it is as a tactic is definitely up for debate (that’s a whole other blog post). But it’s not oppression.
Why is it, do you think, that children are always too young to hear the truth but never too young to be lied to, systematically, conscientiously, in the name of ‘education’?
— Ward Churchill on Perpetual War and State-Sponsored Terrorism (via mutualaddiction)
If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats, we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish an entire nation, we put them on the cover of Forbes magazine and pretend that they are heroes.
— B. Lester (via dank-potion)
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
—
Stephen R. Covey (via ohmoomers)
Consistently guilty of this (progressing though).
(via foxtalbotnegatives)
Every black woman I spoke with who was/is an ardent moviegoer, a lover of the Hollywood film, testified that to experience fully the pleasure of that cinema they had to close down critique, analysis; they had to forget racism. And mostly they did not think about sexism.
—
bell hooks
this is pretty much how I’ve felt about so many movies and TV shows
(via wretchedoftheearth)
They cripple the bird’s wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.
— Malcolm X (via literarydopeness)
