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

It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to be, for the identities that are in the process of construction, without taking into consideration the conditions in which they are living and the importance of the knowledge derived from life experience, which they bring with them to school. I can in no way underestimate such knowledge. Or what is worse, ridicule it.

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

Welfare programs as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. They act as an anesthetic, distracting the oppressed from the true causes of their problems and from the concrete solutions of these problems.

The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed.

Love is an act of courage.

One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.