Keeley

“They referred to our educational experience as the achievement gap, which was another way to say we would never be as smart as White children.”
― Bettina L. Love, Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

“Curriculum is one of the most powerful tools in education to teach all children that people like them and people from whom they are different are beautiful, powerful, and valuable, and so were their ancestors.”
― Bettina L. Love, Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

“Violence is initiated by those who oppress, who exploit, who fail to recognize others as people - not by those who are oppressed, exploited, and unrecognized. It is not the unloved who initiate disaffection, but those who cannot love because they love only themselves. It is not the helpless, subject to terror, who initiate terror, but the violent, who with their power create the concrete situation which begets the 'rejects of life.' It is not the tyrannized who initiate despotism, but the tyrants. It is not those whose humanity is denied them who negate humankind, but those who denied that humanity (thus negating their own as well). Force is used not by those who have become weak under the preponderance of the strong, but by the strong who have emasculated them.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“What she had learned was that life, any life, was death and rebirth, death and rebirth. Everything always changed.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars