Best Of Lewis Raven Wallace's "Radical Unlearning"
Here is a selection of memorable quotes from Radical Unlearning: The Art and Science of Creating Change from Within by Lewis Raven Wallace In exploring the conditions for unlearning, I've come to believe that loving and being loved are the headwaters, the source from which the rest of the possibilities of the mind flow. "Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within," writes James Baldwin in his classic essay "The Fire Next Time." (If you haven't read this seminal text for unlearning white supremacy, please abandon ship! Go read it and come back!) "I use the word 'love' here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace-not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth." p. 23 Being loved-the purview of parents, children, friends, partners, community members-means being seen in light of wha...
