In the long run, the people are our only appeal. The only ones who can free us are ourselves.

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.

It' is for objects, not people.

Thinking is an exercise of an imaginative mind to empower dreams and desires.

There cannot be love without loss, just like there cannot be happiness without sadness, or light without dark.

There is nothing in this universe which is not in struggle to keep its existence!

The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out.

That'd be just what I need: a rash of car thefts across America, committed by dedicated readers.

Ive never gone to culinary school, but I do love cooking.

When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.

What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.

If there was no death, everyone would wish for it.