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“Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what I should be. School was the place where I could forget that self and, through ideas, reinvent myself. School”
― bell hooks, Teaching To Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

“This is one of the tragedies in education today. We have a lot of people who don’t recognize that being a teacher is being with people.”
― bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

“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 become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture.”
― bell hooks, Teaching Community