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Crystal Belle

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Brooklyn, The United States
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Dr. Crystal Belle is a social justice scholar, educator, education consultant, public speaker, qualitative researcher, DEI Facilitator and Thought Leader with 16+ years of experience in k-12 schools and higher education administration. Belle is an expert in leading with equity and empathy to produce academic and programmatic social justice outcomes. Areas of strength include: Learning & Development, Customer Success, DEI Training, Facilitation & Programmatic Scaling, Public Speaking, Coaching, Content Creation and Learning Management Systems.

Also a poet and a writer, Dr. Belle is the author of the poetry collection Woman on Fire (2009) and the author of, Start with Radical Love: Anti-racist pedagogy for social justice educators, to be relea
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Spalding

Niggas are playing basketball

Standing tall in public stalls

Of exploitation

Led by NBA commissioners

Positions allow players

To point guard layers

Of paychecks

That scream:

Run nigger, run!"

Don't stand under the forward sun

'Cuz you'll get blacker

And blacker only means

You'll run up and down the court more.


Don't forget your athletic chores

Score at least 15 points per game

In order to claim the bodi

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Start With Radical Love by Crystal Belle
"This was a compelling, powerful, passionate read, beautifully and beautifully written. I was so moved by Belle's intimate portraits of and "love notes" and she managed to synthesize vast areas of research without ever being dry or redundant. The deep" Read more of this review »
Start With Radical Love by Crystal Belle
"Accessible, beautifully written, and honest! This book would be a wonderful read for any educator who is looking to teach for social justice. The book offers complex theories and teaching practices in ways that seem approachable and manageable. Focus" Read more of this review »
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John Updike
“We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death and constant fear between. Our love has lifted us up, out of the dreadfulness of merely living.”
John Updike, Brazil
tags: love

James Baldwin
“Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.”
James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

James Baldwin
“Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.”
James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

Arundhati Roy
“There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.”
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

Mao Zedong
“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.”
Mao Tse-tung

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Free sample of the There's No Tomorrow
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message 1: by Z.

Z. thanks for the add. i'm feeling your poetry.
peace!
z


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