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

— 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.

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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)

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

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

No woman has to be respectable to be valuable.

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