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I think this is often misunderstood in the West, where people feel that there can be no justice unless everything is the same. This is part of why I feel we have to relearn how we think about love, because we think about love so much in terms of the self.
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Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices
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Love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.
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Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt with tremendous ease that which merely appears radical or subversive
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Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in arenas where there has been little or no change.
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Feminist education — the feminist classroom — is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there is visible acknowledgment of the union of theory and practice, where we work together as teachers and students to overcome the estrangement and alienation that have become so much the norm in the contemporary university.
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Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same.
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Let's face it, war in its essence is another form of capitalism.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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One difference with the political writings, whether about feminism or class, is that the intent is to change how people think of a certain political reality whereas with cultural criticism, the goal is to illuminate something that is already there.
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The soul of our politics is the commitment to ending domination.
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..Critically intervene in a way that challenges and changes.
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To teach in a manner that respects and cares for the souls of our students is essential if we are to provide the necessary conditions where learning can most deeply and intimately begin.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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there is no politically neutral art.
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The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.
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. . . no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.
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We are rarely able to interact only with folks like ourselves, who think as we do. No matter how much some of us deny this reality and long for the safety and familiarity of sameness, inclusive ways of knowing and living offer us the only true way to emancipate ourselves from the divisions that limit our minds and imaginations.
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Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.
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