Love, or having no point of view.

It is a paradox: without language, how can I ever communicate to you, the reader, my point of view? But, with language, how can I ever convey no-point-of-view?

A love-based politics must inherently begin from this point, or rather, from this no-point. If we begin anywhere else, it is as if we are “looking at the blue sky through tears.”

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Michael Bruffee
I refuse to change alone

The best—in fact, the only—way to change our enemies as well as our friends is to get as close as possible to them; to understand them as intimately as we can; to know them better than we know ourselves.

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Michael Bruffee
Laying Bricks

Three bricklayers were working on a construction project,
and a reporter from the local newspaper came and interviewed them,
asking, “What are you doing?”

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Michael Bruffee