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  1. bell hooks _ Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and

    they have the right to fall when life comes to an end to move in harmony with fate
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  2. bell hooks _ Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and

    spirits bring contentment for a time carry us closer to the sacred moving through bitterness our yearning to hold on to moments of ecstasy where we imagine we hear clearly destiny calling
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  3. bell hooks _ Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and

    time is aboriginal eternal
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  4. bell hooks _ Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and

    nature as chameleon
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  5. bell hooks _ Ain't I a Woman: Black Women

    The idealized woman becomes property, symbol, and ornament; she is stripped of her essential human qualities. The devalued woman becomes a different kind of object; she is the spittoon in which men release their negative anti-woman feelings.
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  6. bell hooks _ The Will to Change: Men,

    In the dominator model the pursuit of external power, the ability to manipulate and control others, is what matters most. When culture is based on a dominator model, not only will it be violent but it will frame all relationships as power struggles.
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  7. bell hooks _ Feminism is for Everybody:

    That foundation rested on our critique of what we then called 'the enemy within,' referring to our internalized sexism. We all knew firsthand that we had been socialized as females by patriarchal thinking to see ourselves as inferior to men, to see ourselves as always and only in competition with one another for patriarchal approval, to look upon each other with jealousy, fear, and hatred. Sexist thinking made us judge each other without compassion and punish one another harshly. Feminist thinking helped us unlearn female self-hatred. It enabled us to break free of the hold patriarchal thinking had on our consciousness.
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  8. bell hooks _ Feminism is for Everybody:

    Advancing the notion that there can be many "feminisms" has served the conservative and liberal political interests of women seeking status and privileged class power who were among the first group to use the term "power feminists." They also were the group that began to suggest that one could be feminist and anti-abortion. This another misguided notion. Granting women the civil right to have control over our bodies is a basic feminist principle. Whether an individual female should have an abortion is purely a matter of choice. It is not anti-feminist for us to choose not to have abortions. But it is a feminist principle that women should have the right to choose.
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  9. bell hooks _ Where We Stand: Class Matters

    By championing hedonistic consumerism and encouraging individuals of all classes to believe that ownership of a particular object mediated the realities of class, mass media created a new image of the rich.
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  10. bell hooks _ All About Love: New Visions

    The search for love continued even in the face of great odds.
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  11. bell hooks _ Feminism is for Everybody:

    Romantic love as most people understand it in patriarchal culture makes one unaware, renders one powerless and out of control. Feminist thinkers called attention to the way this notion of love served the interests of patriarchal men and women. It supported the notion that one could do anything in the name of love: beat people, restrict their movements, even kill them and call it a "crime of passion," plead, "I love her so much i had to kill her.
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  12. bell hooks _ All About Love: New Visions

    We have power as consumers. We can exercise that power all the time by not choosing to invest time, energy or funds to support the production of mass media images that do not reflect life-enhancing values, that undermine a love ethic."
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