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“The choice to love is a choice to connect – to find ourselves in the other.”

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“The choice to love is a choice to connect – to find ourselves in the other.”

Bell Hooks Quote: “The choice to love is a choice to connect – to find ourselves in the other.”

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Bell Hooks Quote: “The choice to love is a choice to connect – to find ourselves in the other.”

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1. “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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2. “Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world.”

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3. “Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are – to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.”

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4. “Honesty and openness are always the foundation of insightful dialogue.”

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

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6. “I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions – a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom.”

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7. “When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.”

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

9. “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.”

10. “Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”

11. “Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.”

12. “The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.”

13. “The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community.”

14. “As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one another, in hearing one another’s voices, in recognizing one another’s presence.”

15. “For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?”

16. “There is light in darkness, you just have to find it.”

17. “The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.”

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

19. “Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.”

20. “When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.”

21. “Patriarchy has no gender.”

22. “But love is really more of an interactive process. It’s about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun.”

23. “My focus has always been on the work – that work being critical thinking and writing. I am always doing that. That’s where I am, wherever I am. Critical thinking and writing as my heartbeat.”

24. “Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.”

25. “The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.”

26. “Love is an action, never simply a feeling.”

27. “Sadly, children’s passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.”

28. “Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.”

29. “The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. Until we make this distinction clear, men will continue to fear that any critique of patriarchy represents a threat.”

30. “Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Its aim is not to benefit solely any specific group of women, any particular race or class of women. It does not privilege women over men. It has the power to transform meaningfully all our lives.”

31. “When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.”

32. “If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege.”

33. “The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...”

34. “The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action.”

35. “All awakening to love is spiritual awakening.”

36. “You must have courage to love, you have to have a profound will to do what is right to love, and it does not come easy.”

37. “The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others.”

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

39. “Language is also a place of struggle.”

40. “Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.”

41. “All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.”

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

43. “Without justice there can be no love.”

44. “Love is first and foremost exemplified by action – by practice – not solely by feeling.”

45. “To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients – care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication.”

46. “Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.”

47. “Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to process all our issues, to cope with differences and conflict while staying connected.”

48. “Whether we’re talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it’s where the learning is.”

49. “Being oppressed means the absence of choices.”

50. “The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.”

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