A good teacher is someone who can help you to get back to a teacher within.

Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting and attended similar schools as "not black enough." ...Our concept of black experience has been too narrow and constricting.

. . . no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.

Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.

Even the most subjected person has moments of rage and resentment so intense that they respond, they act against. There is an inner uprising that leads to rebellion, however short- lived. It may be only momentary but it takes place. That space within oneself where resistance is possible remains.

All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are to transform educational institutions-and society-so that the way we live, teach, and work can reflect our joy in cultural diversity, our passion for justice, and our love of freedom.

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.