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"What we are talking about is the whole question is what does it mean to have optimal emotional well-being? Because when you have optimal emotional well-being you can be whole. You can be the diversities of who your selves are. So what you're saying is that we have to resist again and again people trying to deny us that space of emotional well being by keeping us trapped into the plantation culture that says, 'This is who we are.'" -bell hooks

Melissa Harris-Perry And bell hooks Discuss Black Womanhood, Politics And Media