A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.

If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don't deserve to win.

You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.

You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill revolution...you can jail a liberator but you can't jail liberation.

We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.

If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.

We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism.

You're gonna have to keep on saying that - I am the proletariat, I am the people. I am not the pig. You've got to make a distinction.

I'm not going to die slipping on no ice.

That is the consolation of a little mind you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.

In my judgement, when the United States says there will be serious consequences, and if there isn't serious consequences, it creates adverse consequences.

If it isn't on YouTube, it might as well have never happened.

Oh, the transition concerns me because as we move towards an important political event, it's clear to me that the terrorists and insurgents will move as hard as they can to disrupt this process.

The city atmosphere certainly has improved her. Some way she doesn't seem like the same woman.

There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.

In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests

It's easy to misjudge others. The one thing I try to do with everything I write is open people's eyes to those they normally ignore or dismiss. To make people aware of the "other" side of things.

There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth.