“It was the world of Southern, rural, black growing up, of folks sitting on porches day and night, of folks calling your mama, 'cause you walked by and didn't speak, and of the switch waiting when you got home so that you could be taught some manners. It was a world of single black older women schoolteachers, dedicated, tough; they had taught your mama, her sisters, and her friends. They knew your people in ways that you never would and shared their insight, keeping us in touch with generations. It was a world where we had a history.” PeopleWorldWayHomeNightSpeakCausesWaitingBlackHistoryGrowing UpGrowingGenerationsTaughtCallingSittingToughFolksInsightMannersSouthernDedicatedMamaDay And NightPorchOlder Women Author:Bell Hooks
“The notion that black folks have nothing to learn from scholarship that may reflect racial or racist biases is dangerous. It promotes closed-mindedness and a narrow understanding of knowledge to hold that "race" is such an overwhelming concept that it negates the validity of any insights contained in a work that may have some racist or sexist aspects.” MayUnderstandingBlackRaceDangerousRacismConceptsAspectNotionFolksInsightAfrican AmericanRacistOverwhelmingScholarshipValiditySexist Author:Bell Hooks