Justin Hall

“I have found that students from upper- and middleclass backgrounds are disturbed if heated exchange takes place in the classroom. Many of them equate loud talk or interruptions with rude and threatening behavior. Yet those of us from working-class backgrounds may feel that discussion is deeper and richer if it arouses intense responses.”
― bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

“Something specific Madame told us: "Always have a reason, a problem, a cause for appearing on stage."

Vakhtangov had told his actors that at times it does not really matter what you think as long as you are thinking about something, something real”
― Lee Strasberg, A Dream of Passion: The Development of the Method

“Yet it was only as I began to interrogate my fear of "power" —he way that fear was related to my own class background where I had so often seen those with class power coerce, abuse, and dominate those without.”
― bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

“I named him Winston because I liked the meaning of those two words “wins ton.”
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club