The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

I think that the inability to love is the central problem, because that inability masks a certain terror, and that terror is the terror of being touched. And if you can't be touched, you can't be changed. And if you can't be changed, you can't be alive.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.