I think that people who want to change this planet have to seriously understand that as human beings we have to work to be good.

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 believe that love, like magic, casts its own spell of enchantment.

Right at the flamingo orgy! Left at the multiethnic roof Santas! Straight past the pissing cherubs!

If God didn't want me to cross boundaries, then he wouldn't have made me a writer.

A mirror can contain the reflection of the whole universe, a whole skyful of stars in a piece of silvered glass no thicker than a breath.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos.

No one person leads alone - can't do it, it's impossible. It doesn't make any sense. You need a team.

Essentially, your voice is an instrument; its a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have to work it.

With no mind, flowers lure the butterfly; With no mind, the butterfly visits the blossoms. Yet when flowers bloom, the butterfly comes; When the butterfly comes, the flowers bloom.

The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.