kemetically-afrolatino:

The search for decolonial love:

An interview with Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Junot Díaz by Paula M.L. Moya

On May 19, 2012, I met over breakfast with Junot Díaz; we were both attending a two-day symposium about his work at Stanford University. The resulting conversation touched on Díaz’s concern with race, his debt to the writings of women of color, and his fictional explorations of psychic and emotional decolonization.

Junot Diaz — “White supremacy’s greatest trick is that it has convinced people that it exists always in other people, never in us.”

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becauseofthiswoman:

Name: bell hooks
Dates: 1952-present

Why she rocks: She writes books on the interconnectivity of gender, race, class and how they have the ability to perpetuate systems of oppression and domination. She has published over thirty books and countless scholarly and mainstream articles, appeared in several documentaries, and speaks globally. 

Quote: I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

Because of this woman… there is a figurehead talking about how to end systems of oppression in our world. 

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