For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.

By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?

Not only are there African accomplices inside the imperialist system, but every African has a responsibility to understand the system and work for its overthrow.

Revolution is the most dramatic appearance of a conscious people.

A culture is a total way of life. It embraces what people ate and what they wore; the way they walked and the way they talked; the manner in which they treated death and greeted the newborn.

If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be by revolutionary means

I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe when I'm making love.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

For me, it's always easy to choose between the Ultimate, the Infinite, and the Chocolate.

What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a hound dog. Then you feed the steak to the dog.

A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.

The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.

When it's colder, your skin needs more attention.

The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.

Everything you agree to do is other things you can't do

It is not enough to long for a person as a good for oneself, one must also, and above all, long for that person's good.