Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical dualism, many of us have accepted the notion that there is a split between the body and the mind. Believing this, individuals enter the classroom to teach as though only the mind is present, and not the body.
Bell HooksThe greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
Bell HooksThe world demands that you work for it, make families, provide, take no time to listen to your own heart beating.
Bell HooksWriting is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasyโโto stand outsideโโcomes to me in those moments when I am immersed so deeply in the act of thinking and writing that everything else, even flesh, falls away.
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