bell hooks

“All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting a stop to it.”

“There can be no love without justice.”

“The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy.”

“The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy.”

“Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.”

“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.”

“The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination.”

“The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination.”

“The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.”

“To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination.”

“I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.”

“Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma paralyzes.”

“I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.”

“To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination.”

“Marginality is not a site of deprivation, but rather a site of radical possibility, a space of resistance.”

“Justice demands integrity. It's to have a moral universe — not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, find the given logic in things.”

“The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.”

“What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.”

“To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.”

“If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.”