Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger.
Bell HooksPopular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.
Bell HooksIn patriarchal culture men are especially inclined to see love as something they should receive without expending effort. More often than not they do not want to do the work that love demands. When the practice of love invites us to enter a place of potential bliss that is at the same time a place of critical awakening and pain, many of us turn our backs on love.
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