If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to their brothers and sisters, inspiring them to follow their example.

Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.

The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars.

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner.

Laws should be made to serve the people. People should not be made to serve the laws.

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

You can kill my body, and you can take my life but you can never kill my soul. My soul will live forever!

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

Maybe if you had megaphones on your chest they'd listen to the words that came out of your lips

It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one'syouthful ideals.

You know you are wealthy when you lose count of the people whose lives you changed for the better.

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.

If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes.

If tolerance and kindness and acceptance and love are political, then I guess I am political.

Once you've started down that road to self-discovery, no matter how treacherous the path before you, you can't turn back. The universe doesn't allow it.

Sometimes it is worth any amount of suffering just to prevent giving your parents the opportunity to be right.

Traveling changed my personality and gave me ability to do the music I do and to think in a certain way that everything can be possible.