The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.

Love is an act of courage.

... there is no valid teaching from which there does not emerge something learned and through which the learner does not become capable of recreating and remaking what has been taught.

Just as it is important in Latin America to discuss ideas that come from North America, I think it is interesting for North Americans to discuss ideas that come from Latin America or Africa and do not insert themselves into capitalist interests.

Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.

Any attempt to treat people as semihumans only dehumanizes them.

The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust.