If anything I think postmodernism has the least impact on my work.

Our freedom is sweet. It will be sweeter when we are all free.

I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom.

We don't really live in a culture that loves boys or loves children, and we don't encourage boys to be whole.

Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in educational settings.

I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.... education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created.

All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are to transform educational institutions-and society-so that the way we live, teach, and work can reflect our joy in cultural diversity, our passion for justice, and our love of freedom.