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“Is there a greater flex than love?”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“As a teacher, I think carefully about the intellectual space I want to foster in my classroom -- a space where debate, dissent ad even protest are encouraged. I want to challenge students and be challenged. I don't want to shape their opinions. I want to shape how they articulate and support those opinions.”
― Roxane Gay, Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business

“If someone's lost a cat, but the cat was the most important thing in their world, to me that needs to be taken seriously -- that's as important as someone else's loss of a person. It's weird that people police grief and decide whose loss necessitates more care.”
― Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

“School's got as many potholes as the streets, always chipping, always leaving us to trip.”
― Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling