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Crystal Belle

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Born

Brooklyn, The United States

Website

https://www.drcrystalbelle.com/

Twitter

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Genre

Poetry, Education, Critical Race Theory

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Saul Williams, Assata Shakur, Sonia Sanchez, Derek Walcott, Jean 'Bint ...more

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February 2007

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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 ...more

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Standing tall in public stalls

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Led by NBA commissioners

Positions allow players

To point guard layers

Of paychecks

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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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Zora Hurston and the Strange Case of Ruby McCollum

by C. Arthur Ellis Jr. (Goodreads Author)

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Paradise (Beloved Trilogy, #3)

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Crystal’s Quotes

“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

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“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

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

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

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“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

tags: class, revolution, violence

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