... 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.

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.

You and me? We are never going to be just friends. The only time I'm not adoring you is when I am too busy hating you and wishing to God I never met you...

Many parents preach to their children but do not set good examples. Parents want the children to do as they say, not as they do.

I think Democrats are complacent. They think that Russia is going to save us. Bob Mueller is going to come in with a report.

Most of us can agree there is nothing more special, mysterious, mystical, powerful and important than life!

I want to get into the whole clothing thing, movies, but I just want to make sure that my artistry is locked down.

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

I've always been fascinated by Baretta and Donny Brasco, and other undercover cops in movies.

That's how things are these days: everything must move aside to make room for the new, all the time.

Nice characters are boring! I like writing upbeat characters - that's my natural tendency.

It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.