The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves.

Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.

Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause--the cause of liberation.

Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed

Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.

Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.

Everybody means by an open mind, a mind which contains their prejudices but not somebody else's.

Their story, yours, mine - it's what we all carry with us on this trip we take, and we owe it to each other to respect our stories and learn from them.

The reason I started officially learning to cook was because when I first got pregnant, I had to face the sad fact that I didn't even know how to boil an egg.

Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge

I like colonic irrigation because sometimes you find old jewelry.

Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone. Who had nothing, who wanted everything.

One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.

What I've learnt about artists over the years is, artists are usually the opposite to their music.

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.