If Mumia Abu-Jamal has nothing important to say, why are so many powerful people trying to shut him up?

Do not fall asleep in your enemy's dream.

A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips and teaches us to perceive reality differently.

As a writer, you don't know what the hell you're doing. You're just doing it. You hope it works out well.

I had a deep prejudice against the South. It's taken me many years to get over that, be more open and thoughtful.

Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

You have to be a minor superhero just to get to be a dignified man, and that's kind of exacerbated for men of color.

All Stories are True.

I believe - what did Faulkner say? "The past is not even past."

Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable.

We should be able to refuse enchanting proposals and opportunities, if they contradict God’s principles

Get tuned in to the goals created from each dream and stay focused. You might miss the goals if you are not focused.

Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.

And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.

I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.

Mentally, you must believe it before you physically start it, or else you will never reach prosperity.

I've been a longtime supporter of all sorts of environmental groups.

The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.

We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation.

The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.