I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.
From bell hooks
Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we have no time to love.
Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.
I can be standing in Barneys with my coat and purse and my selections, and some white woman will say, 'Can you get this in my size?' What she sees is a black woman, and her service button goes off.
Live simply so that others may simply live.
An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.
The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of people and that one did not have to continue the personal consciousness-raising and changing of one's viewpoint.
Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.
These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.
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