I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.

You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.

There's nothing wrong with being a cop. There's nothing wrong with being a white person. It's about where your heart is...We've got to get everyone beyond the xenophobic isolationism.

Our position was: If you don't attack us, there won't be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves.

We don't hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!

We're hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?

To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.

I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism.

The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.

I had to come to terms with the fact that I wouldn’t have peace with myself until I found a way to like myself.

You're right that not everything we do has to have some kind of social agenda, but that doesn't mean it can only be anesthetizing crap.

Fear is sand in the machinery of life.

When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

I was offered to take over for Reba in 'Annie Get Your Gun,' but it wasn't where I wanted to be. I think my fans would be upset if I confined my shows to one city for a long period of time.

Anchor your faith in the plain and simple truths of the gospel.

The romance of the old West vanished so fast and so few ever did anything with it. Does it make you realize the importance of Art and how the main knowledge of history is through Art alone?

My whole family was very supportive of my choice in a career. I started playing music when I was about 6 years old.

People by themselves can be pretty stupid. People working together can be very powerful.