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"If I can't dance I don't want to be in your revolution." - Emma Goldman

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"If I can't dance I don't want to be in your revolution." - Emma Goldman

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"Y'all come into my office, we need to dance!"

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"Hard times require furious dancing." - Alice Walker

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"Hard times require furious dancing." - Alice Walker

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I think of empathy as something warm. Radical empathy sounds like an inferno.

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Creating and building liberatory spaces/environments is something that I feel I can actively create; it's tangible.

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What we're doing is not new - we are part of a continuum of change.

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We want to make sure that our students see themselves more in our curriculum.

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Meaningful modifications are possible even if major changes take more time. It's important to "institutionalize" practices in a way that assures they will be used sustainably as part of "business as usual."

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Plotting together is confirming as well as enlightening.

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dominant culture's toxic ways of thinking is so deeply rooted in how many people see the world and the work of undoing the damage is not easy.

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I am more aware of inequities beyond what I thought I had seen. There is much work to be done.

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Even small steps toward change can have large positive outcomes.

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when I avoid paternalism, I feel more engaged and connected with my students.

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good enough" has gotten an undeserving bad rap, and that one can choose not to focus on "perfect" without sacrificing quality.

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Include students in decision making and not over simplify situations

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I am capable of change and abandoning perfectionism is freeing

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quotes from participants

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1

Liberated

DeJ Loaf, Leon Bridges

3:19

2

Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing

Stevie Wonder

4:44

3

Got To Give It Up

Marvin Gaye

6:01

4

Toast

Koffee

3:11

5

Shining Star

Earth, Wind & Fire

2:50

6

Lively Up Yourself

Bob Marley & The Wailers

5:10

7

UMI Says

Mos Def

5:05

8

Laila’s Wisdom

Rapsody

3:14

9

Escapade

Janet Jackson

4:43

10

Before I Let Go

Maze & Frankie Beverly

5:07

11

Optimistic

Sounds Of Blackness

5:18

12

Everybody Loves The Sunshine

Roy Ayers Ubiquity

3:59

13

Breezin'

George Benson

5:41

14

Window Seat

Erykah Badu

4:49

15

Everything Is Everything

Ms. Lauryn Hill

4:53

16

Golden

Jill Scott

3:51

17

Shakara

Fela Kuti

13:25

18

Rock Steady

Aretha Franklin

3:13

19

Cruisin'

D'Angelo

6:24

20

Free

Deniece Williams

5:56

21

Joy & Pain

Maze, Frankie Beverly

7:11

22

Wake Up Everybody (feat. Teddy Pendergrass)

Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, Teddy Pendergrass

7:32

23

Someday We'll All Be Free

Donny Hathaway

4:10

24

Tennessee

Arrested Development

4:32

25

Bad Bad News

Leon Bridges

3:27

26

Feels Like Summer

Childish Gambino

4:57

27

Feeling Good

Nina Simone

2:54

28

Family Affair

Mary J. Blige

4:25

29

Paid In Full

Eric B. & Rakim, Marley Marl

3:48

30

I'll Take You There

The Staple Singers

3:16

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“Hard times require furious dancing!” - Alice Walker

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“Everything a village needs, is already in the village.” -African Proverb

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“If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.”

— Toni Morrison

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“The most common way people give up their power
is to believe that they don’t have any.” — Alice Walker

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“...[A]ll life is inter-related. A network of mutuality. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

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“One of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.”  — bell hooks

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"All deserve an educational experience that helps them to grow and offers hope and opportunity." ACLS Participant

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“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” - Angela Davis

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“Without inner change there can be no outer change.
Without collective change, no change matters.” -Rev Angel Kyodo Williams

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"What we DO is far more important than what we say or what we say we believe." bell hooks

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“It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world, but neither are you free to desist from it.” -Rabbi Tarfon

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"Race is the child of racism, not the father." Ta-Nehesi Coates

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As a community building towards liberation

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Hope, joy, healing and celebration

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From discomfort: Engage in difficult conversations on race

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From oppressive practices: components of dominant culture

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Individual and institutional truths: the role of race, power, and oppression

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"...we want to talk about having your life and your culture and your existence overwritten" -Dart Adams

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"...actions and approaches organizations often adopt that create the illusion of equity progress." -Gorski

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“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.” -Brene Brown

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shifting our mindsets from focusing on the individual (fish) to the system (groundwater)

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REI Groundwater Approach.pdf

REI Groundwater Approach.pdf

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“You are either perpetuating or interrupting. There is no middle ground." -Humanity over comfort

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“Liberated relationships are one of the ways we actually create abundant justice, we understand that there is enough attention, care, resource, and connection for all of us to access belonging, to be in our dignity, and to be safe in community.” -- - Adrienne Maree Brown

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“Things are not getting worse. They are getting uncovered. We must hold each other tight and continue to pull back the veil.” -adrienne marie brown