What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.

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It is poetry that changes everything.

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I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice o…

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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.

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Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear,…

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[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.

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Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they do…

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To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.

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Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies …

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