#ck

If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#back #because #blues #get #going

In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all crooks - I'll say it clear and loud - especially the big ones. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#big #big ones #boat #business #career

You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#back #blues #europe #go #parts

No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#america #black #existence #focus #group

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#black #health #i #i think #number

I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#black #blacks #disturbed #i #identify

What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#begun #black #establishment #free #goal

If you look at classic Hollywood films, they tend to shoot close-ups on quite long lenses and the background it out of focus. You know, it's just a mush. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#classic #films #focus #hollywood #hollywood films

I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#back #characters #cultures #drawn #i

I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#back #because #completely #connected #dad