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- 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…
- Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that…
- Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt…
- 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.
- If only one party in the relationship is working to create love, to create the space of emotional connection, the dominator model remains in place…
- We are rarely able to interact only with folks like ourselves, who think as we do. No matter how much some of us deny this…
- When we are more energized by the practice of blaming than we are by efforts to create transformation, we not only cannot find relief from…
- Women have endeavored to guide men to love because patriarchal thinking has sanctioned this work even as it has undermined it by teaching men to…
- I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read…
- Think of all the women you know who will not allow themselves to be seen without makeup. I often wonder how they feel about themselves…
- I believe that this nation can only heal from the wounds of racism if we all begin to love blackness. And by that I don't…
- I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to…
- Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe — not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh…
- As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a problem. Masses…
- 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…
- Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will…
- When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise. They tell us paradise is our…
- When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can…
- We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is…
- To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to…
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- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle