Jennifer Smith

“for the first time in my life, I was aware of cold as a menace.”
― Michelle Paver, Dark Matter

“For example, I am disturbed when all the courses on black history or literature at some colleges and universities are taught solely by white people, not because I think that they cannot know these realities but that they know them differently.”
― bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

“Close my eyes. Let the night become dawn. Let the snow outside fall and fall like it will bury us. Please bury us. It would be totally fine by me.”
― Mona Awad, Bunny

“The exciting aspect of creating a classroom community where there is respect for individual voices is that there is infinitely more feedback because students do feel free to talk — and talk back. And, yes, often this feedback is critical. Moving away from the need for immediate affirmation was crucial to my growth as a teacher. I learned to respect that shifting paradigms or sharing knowledge in new ways challenges; it takes time for students to experience that challenge as positive.”
― bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom