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Poverty is an apocalypse in slow motion, inexorable and generational.

— Mikki Kendall Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (2020)

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Sometimes being a good ally is about opening the door for someone instead of insisting that your voice is the only one that matters.

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (2020)

There is no shame in asking for help; it takes strength to admit you need it.

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (2020)

America loves the myth of a meritocracy more than anything else, because it lets us ignore the reality of the impact of bigotry.

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (2020)

No woman has to be respectable to be valuable.

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (2020)

Politeness as filtered through fragility and supremacy isn't about manners; it's about a methodology of controlling the conversation.

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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