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I think the O.J. Simpson trial was a revelation about the ongoing patterns of racial difference in American society. ”
Antiracists must acknowledge that patriarchy has long been a weapon of racism and cannot sit comfortably in any politic of racial transformation. ”
A lot of more modern films seem to just be out for violence or sex or what have you, without relating it to what's going within human beings. But every now and then one comes along that does that, and it's a joy. ”
I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky. ”
Every time we watch a little story play out inside our head, we're fantasizing, whether we realize it or not, and it seems to me that, though succumbing to fantasies about other people can be dangerous or self-defeating, the act of fantasizing itself is also an essential part of being human, of being capable of both abstraction and empathy. ”
Motherhood has become a battleground on which prejudice and class resentment can be waged without ever admitting that's what we're doing. ”
I think being a feminist is to each her own. It's kind of like asking someone what being a woman means to them. We should all be feminists. We should all want equality. ”
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. ”
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. ”
The question of sort of music and history, I think, are so important to understanding the poem as an idea but also us as people in the world. ”