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“When you see a culture where the intellectual architects of the invasion are not shamed for their behavior but rewarded within the mainstream media culture, black comedy, satire, absurdism is the only response.”

Culture Black Comedy Media Behavior Intellectual Response Satire Architect Mainstream Invasion Mainstream Media Black Comedy

Author:John Cusack

“Long gone is the time when we opposed the notion that we all looked alike and talked alike. Somehow we have come to exalt the new black stereotype above all and to demand conformity to that norm... [However], I assert my right to think for myself, to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me as though I was an intellectual slave because I'm black.”

Thinking Long Ideas Black Gone Demand Intellectual Slave Notion Refuse Conformity Stereotype Norm

Author:Clarence Thomas

“. . . no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.”

Mind Black Intellectual Black Women

Book:Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

Source: Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

“Intellectual traditions emerging from populations that have always been the constitutive other in the development of the properly free citizen - indigenous people, populations labeled physically or mentally unfit, black people, migrants, women, prisoners - have always produced robust critiques of the what Dylan Rodriguez calls "white bourgeois freedom."”

People Black White Development Citizens Intellectual Tradition Population Prisoner Black People Dylan Indigenous Emerging Critique Bourgeois Robust Migrants Indigenous People

Author:Dean Spade