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"The force that allows white feminist authors to make no reference to racial identity in their books about ‘women’ that are in actuality about white women is the same one that would compel any author writing exclusively on black women to refer explicitly to their racial identity. That force is racism. In a racially imperialist nation such as ours, it is the dominant race that reserves for itself the luxury of dismissing racial identity while the oppressed race is made daily aware of their racial identity. It is the dominant race that can make it seem that their experience is Representative."

bell hooks, Ain’t I A Woman, pg 138 (via butcheredmentality)

another quote that I needed to find to put in my essay - tumblr has the shittiest search feature known to existence. just saying.

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