Justin Hall

“During my college years it was tacitly assumed that we all agreed that class should not be talked about, that there would be no critique of the bourgeois class biases shaping and informing pedagogical process (as well as social etiquette) in the classroom. Although no one ever directly stated the rules that would govern our conduct, it was taught by example and reinforced by a system of rewards. As silence and obedience to authority were most rewarded...”
― bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

“Cinema is like a machine that generates empathy.”
― Roger Ebert

“-Che ti piace di me?
-Tuo insolenza.
-Lo chiamo l’arte di seduzione.”
― Paolo Sorrentino, Parthenope

“Yet it was only as I began to interrogate my fear of "power" —he way that fear was related to my own class background where I had so often seen those with class power coerce, abuse, and dominate those without.”
― bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom