This generation has forgotten the sacrifices. She told the audience that the nearly completed Neal-Marshall Center on the Bloomington campus is a testimony to the civil rights struggle. Home for us has always been a place of sanctuary, she said. The center should be not just a black space. It should be for everyone to build a bridge to white folks, too.
Love is the heart of the matter love sustains and dialog is the wave of the future.
Asked about the role of love in the classroom, she replied that the important elements are caring, knowledge, responsibility, trust and respect. I believe in the transforming power of love. Hooks is Distinguish Professor of English at City College and the Graduate Center of the City University in New York. She was a professor of English at Yale University and Oberlin College. IU Home Pages 400 E. 7th Street.