To me the family has always been that place of familiarity that holds and hurts us. - bell hooks

Teaching women how to defend themselves against male rapists is not the same as working to change society so that men will not rape.

What nationalist educators often fail to recognize is that merely being taught by teachers who are black has not and will not solve the problem if the teachers have been socialized to internalize racist thinking.

To fulfill that mission, my teachers made sure they “knew” us. They knew our parents, our economic status, where we worshipped, what our homes were like, and how we were treated in the family.