I am passionate about everything in my life--first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that's a dangerous person to be in this society, not just because I'm a woman, but because it's such a fundamentally anti-intellectual, anti-critical thinking society. --bell hooks

I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.... education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created.

It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.

Dare to look at the intersectionalities.

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

Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love.

Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.