I'm truly blessed, because many of my friends come to Cuba. They like it here-they can relax and not worry about drive-by shootings or getting raped.

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.

It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.

Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is....never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.

Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.

I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.

Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.

Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.

To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

I choose me bristles with prideYes, I doA broom for the shaftAnd a broom for the flumeThough I'm covered with soot From me 'ead to me toesA sweep knows 'e's welcomeWherever 'e goes

We have fought this fight as long and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. There is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

Great literary works are not measured by the number of words, but by the impact they create.

Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.

When the time comes for a change, you will find it occurring without having created it yourself. You may think that you are the doer and that you are creating the change. That's nonsense.

The purpose of romantic relationships is to encourage you to grow spiritually.

Wherever flaxseeds become a regular food item among the people, there will be better health.

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.

Those who tell the stories rule society.

The State is not in itself an end, but is only a means towards human development.