I

Topic

image

/image-quotes-and-sayings

191 Quotes

Topic Summary

About the image quote collection

The image page groups 191 quotes under one canonical topic hub so readers and answer engines can cite a stable source instead of fragmented search results.

Topic Feed

Quotes filed under image

"

Watching Paris is Burning, I began to think that the many yuppie-looking, straight -acting, pushy, predominantly white folks in the audience were there because the film in no way interrogates __hiteness._ These folks left the film saying it was __mazing,_ __arvellous,_ incredibly funny,_ worthy of statements like, __idn__ you just love it?_ And no, I didn__ love it. For in many ways the film was a graphic documentary portrait of the way in which colonized black people (in this case black gay brothers, some of whom were drag queens) worship at the throne of whiteness, even when such worship demands that we live in perpetual self-hate, steal, go hungry, and even die in its pursuit. The "we" evoked here is all of us, black people/people of color, who are daily bombarded by a powerful colonizing whiteness that seduces us away from ourselves, that negates that there is beauty to be found in any form of blackness that is not imitation whiteness.

BH
bell hooks

Black Looks: Race and Representation