bell hooks and a cup of coffee

There's nothing like a little bell hooks and a good cup of coffee to start your day off, both of the following quotes were taken from her book, "Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope".

“There is no better place than the classroom, that setting where we invite students to open their minds and think beyond all boundaries to challenge, confront, and change the hidden trauma of shame. We do this by enacting a politics of affirmation where difference is accorded respect and all voices deemed worthy.” (pg. 103)

“Whenever we love justice and stand on the side of justices we refuse simplistic binaries. We refuse to allow either/or thinking to cloud our judgment. We embrace the logic of both/and. We acknowledge the limits of what we know.” (pg. 10)