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I Have Never Said, As Is Sometimes Believed, Or Even Suggested That Lower-class Children Should Not Learn The So-called Educated Norm Of The Portuguese Language Of Brazil. What I Have Said Is That The Problems Of Language Always Involve Ideological Questions And, Along With Them, Questions Of Power.

[t]he More Radical The Person Is, The More Fully He Or She Enters Into Reality So That, Knowing It Better, He Or She Can Transform It. This Individual Is Not Afraid To Confront, To Listen, To See The World Unveiled. This Person Is Not Afraid To Meet The People Or To Enter Into A Dialogue With Them. This Person Does Not Consider Himself Or Herself The Proprietor Of History Or Of All People, Or The Liberator Of The Oppressed; But He Or She Does Commit Himself Or Herself, Within History, To Fight At Their Side.

Looking At The Past Must Only Be A Means Of Understanding More Clearly What And Who They Are So That They Can More Wisely Build The Future.

But Almost Always, During The Initial Stage Of The Struggle, The Oppressed, Instead Of Striving For Liberation, Tend Themselves To Become Oppressors, Or Sub Oppressors. The Very Structure Of Their Thought Has Been Conditioned By The Contradiction Of The Concrete, Existential Situation By Which They Were Shaped. Their Ideal Is To Be Men; But For Them To Be Men Is To Be Oppressors

No One Is Born Fully-formed: It Is Through Self-experience In The World That We Become What We Are.