Quotes about Appropriation

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Stolen oranges also have Vitamin C. Likewise, a stolen salmon, too, has omega-3 fatty acids. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We can have no significant understanding of any culture unless we also know the silences that were intentionally created — Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of the — Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
The act of claiming an identity can be transformational. It can provide healing and empowerment. It can weld solidarity — Simon Tam
All men are ‘real men’, whether they wear KingGees or a pink tutu. — Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
Should you operate upon your clients as objects, you risk reducing them to less than human. Following the culture of app — Scott E. Spradlin
Even you, the professional helper, often mistaken for the enlightened Guru or Staretz, can become lost in your thoughts — Scott E. Spradlin
I would prefer to believe that things possess the power of recall, of recollection. That things are memoirs of the exist — Norman Lock, The Boy in His Winter: An American Novel
Cultures of permission valorized bad taste as liberation. — Tony Tulathimutte, Private Citizens
Hatred is unattractive, but it's also irresistible. If men were honest with themselves, they'd admit it's a stronger pas — Norman Lock, The Boy in His Winter: An American Novel
What you have now then is the marketing of racialized identities as tools for consumption. And certain racialized bodies — Amalia Mesa-Bains, Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism
The idea of reappropriation isn’t a new one. The process of turning negative words, symbols, or ideas into positive part — Simon S. Tam
To ennoble is to diminish by robbing people of their complexity, their completeness, of their humanity, which is always — Norman Lock, The Boy in His Winter: An American Novel
Every fundamental order is a spatial order. One speaks of the constitution of a country or a piece of earth as of its fu — Carl Schmitt, Land and Sea: A World-Historical Meditation
I don't like the way our community throws the word around like it's water, because it's a derogatory term. A lot of time — Chuck D, Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary, Vol. 1
...they ain't never met nobody they didn't lie to and steal from. — James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk
What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we love black culture? — Amandla Stenberg
Racism doesn't have to fit our stereotypes for what it is in order for it to hurt - but it also means that tools for dis — Simon S. Tam
A racist notion found in neoshamanic circles is placing high value on indigenous wisdom but not on indigenous people. — S. Kelley Harrell, Teen Spirit Guide to Modern Shamanism
I believe that reappropriation can be a powerful tool for creating social change. Sometimes, things like irony, satire, — Simon S. Tam