“We must learn to see. Seeing here is meant to metaphysically as heightened awareness and understanding, the intensification of one’s capacity to experience, reality through the realm of the senses.” – bell hooks

"I understood that advanced capitalism was affecting our capacity to see, that consumerism began to take the place of that predicament of heart that called us to yearn for beauty. Now many of us are only yearning for things." - bell hooks

"Dance is activism. Dance is an act and it's radical, and in that way you're an agent of change, an agent of change in the world. It's that simple and it's that hard. There's that much resistance against you. People, they..."they" whatever that is... they don't want that change. They don't want other possibilities, that's scary... to be in a world of change. So even inside fixed movement I find myself an agent of change." - Jesse Zaritt (Dance Artist)