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.

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.

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 don't have to live up to that Superwoman myth. I can cry and be human and lean on people who take care of me. That can be very liberating.

Stars don’t need words to be heard

The faculty of art is to change events

There is a point in the future where even the worst disaster starts to settle into an anecdote.

I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies.

Art is a weapon that penetrates the eyes, the ears, the deepest and subtlest human feelings.

Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.

Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.

Das Kapital, I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.